Miguel Tavares
Data Platform Engineer
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolMiguel Tavares is a Data Platform Engineer based in Porto with 8 years of multidisciplinary experience bridging industrial and software engineering. He designs and operates AWS-based data pipelines, real-time streaming, and data warehouses using Python, PySpark and Terraform/OpenTofu, with a strong focus on CI/CD, data quality and DevOps practices. Comfortable in Scrum teams, he builds reusable infrastructure modules that speed team-wide integration and improve operational reliability. His background in electrical and industrial engineering informs a pragmatic approach to process automation and performance optimization across both hardware-adjacent and cloud-native systems. Outside of work he channels creativity from travel and hands-on home projects into practical solutions, which helps him spot inefficiencies others miss.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica, Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaMaster of Engineering (MEng), Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica, Master of Engineering (MEng), Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoMaster's degree, data science, Master's degree, data science at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (32)
markdown10
alfred10
gitversion10
obsidian10
alfred-workflow10
logging9
roamresearch8
mithriljs6
git6
jekyll5
static-site5
dance5
markdown-it4
organizer4
frontend4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
macedotavares/obsidian-utilities
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
An Alfred workflow focusing on quick entry and logging.
Contributions:10 releases, 72 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
alfred-workflowloggingalfredworkflowobsidian
macedotavares/Glass-Dome
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
An Alfred workflow to fight link rot in Markdown notes.
Contributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 7 months
alfred-workflowmarkdown
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