Ricardo Tavares
System Engineer at Cloudflare
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Tavares is a systems engineer and full-stack developer with over a decade of experience designing scalable, performance-oriented web architectures from Lisbon. He co-founded Nutripédia.pt and currently works at Cloudflare, bringing startup grit and production-grade practices to distributed systems and multi-tenant platforms. His background includes building compact historical reservation storage with custom triggers, SQL-driven ETL for scalability, real-time streaming and chat infrastructure, and integrations that cut operational costs. Comfortable across Java/Spring Boot, PostgreSQL/PLpgSQL, Angular/TypeScript, WebRTC and Node.js, he blends backend performance tuning with pragmatic front-end modularity. Notably, he has hands-on experience optimizing for multi-tenancy and high-concurrency streaming—skills forged in both startups and platform-scale environments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science and Technology, 18.3, High School, Science and Technology, 18.3 at Escola Secundária Tomás CabreiraBachelor's degree, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, 17, Bachelor's degree, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, 17 at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (30)
studio10
obs-studio10
live-streaming10
broadcasting10
websocket10
directshow10
ffmpeg10
streaming-video10
obs10
facebook-live10
screen-recording10
remote-control10
recording10
audio10
screen-capture10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rjgtav/tos-database
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
A fan-made and open-source Database & Simulator for Tree of Savior, an MMORPG being developed by IMCGAMES CO., LTD. Includes iTOS, jTOS, kTOS and kTEST regions.
Contributions:6 PRs, 2703 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
gameregionsgame-developmentsimulatordatabase
rjgtav/jetbrains-settings-intellij
Apr 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:151 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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