Alvaro Dominguez

Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Despegar, focused on real-time systems. Grew the real-time team from 6 to 40 engineers. Before that: Vale and Deloitte. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

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Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Jan 2023 - Present
   Despegar · 3 yr 9 mo · Contract · Bogotá, Colombia
   • Shipped 13 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
   • Wrote the Redis service that now handles 28 million requests a day.
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 28% in two quarters.
2. Staff Software Engineer

   Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
   Vale · 2 yr 6 mo · Contract · Bogotá, Colombia
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 33% in two quarters.
   • Shipped 27 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
3. Senior Software Engineer

   Jul 2016 - May 2020
   Deloitte · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Bogotá, Colombia
   • Led the migration of 50 services to Go.
4. Senior Software Engineer

   Oct 2013 - May 2016
   Embraer · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bogotá, Colombia
   • Shipped 16 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
5. Software Engineer

   Feb 2010 - Oct 2013
   Mercado Libre · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bogotá, Colombia
   • Wrote the low-latency systems service that now handles 48 million requests a day.
   • Shipped 20 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.

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Education

1. Fundação Getulio Vargas

   Administração, Mathematics
   2003 - 2007