Tiago Alves
Software Development Manager at IBM
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolTiago Alves is a seasoned Software Development Manager and polyglot engineer with ~15 years building backend and distributed data platforms, now leading on-premises database engineering for IBM watsonx.data after DataStax’s acquisition. Based in Lisbon, he has a decade of remote-first experience coordinating multicultural teams across time zones and driving clarity through async collaboration and strong automation practices. He’s specialized in Apache Cassandra and database engines, with hands-on contributions spanning Java, Python, Clojure, and infrastructure-as-code that reduced costs and improved CI performance. At DataStax he modernized CI/CD, automated releases, and removed unnecessary AWS spend—saving over $200k/year—while also fixing IPv6 and security issues across OpsCenter and DSE. Comfortable moving between coding, test automation, and technical leadership, he blends deep academic training (PhD-level) with practical impact on large-scale production systems. An advocate for open source and developer enablement, he uniquely pairs systems-level expertise with a track record of operational cost savings and CI transformation.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Space Studies Program Business and management Space life sciences Space policy and law Satellite applications, Space Studies Program Business and management Space life sciences Space policy and law Satellite applications at International Space UniversityPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Universidade do Minho
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, German
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Github Skills (115)
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jsch10
operator10
itil10
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cassandra10
mysql10
datastax10
apache10
java10
osgi10
facebook10
oracle10
sling10
singer10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tiagomlalves/cassandra
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Mirror of Apache Cassandra
Contributions:1 PR, 51 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 2 months
cassandraapacheslingdatabaseapache-cassandra
tiagomlalves/clj-ssh
Aug 2023 - May 2024
SSH commands via jsch
Contributions:54 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
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