Summary
Romelio Tavas is a Lead Data Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and automated infrastructure across Azure, GCP, and AWS. He has led teams of up to 10 engineers delivering data modernization for large banks and telcos, combining dimensional modeling, Airflow/Databricks orchestration, and CI/CD-driven feature delivery to improve reliability and feedback loops. His background in telecommunications and 5G automation at Samsung complements his data platform work, bringing systems-level thinking to deployment and testing with Terraform and Kubernetes. At Thinking Machines he helped integrate GPT-4 into enterprise workflows, demonstrating a knack for practical AI augmentation of business processes. Known for fostering high-velocity, sustainable teams, he balances technical mentorship with hands-on implementation and a focus on measurable business impact. Based in Pasay, Philippines, he holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of the Philippines.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at University of the Philippines