Carmen Gabriela Molina

Engineering Manager at Tesla · Backstage, observability

Tesla

Portland, OR · PT (UTC-8)

11+ years experience

Duke University

English

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Overview

I've spent 12 years on platform engineering - first at Instacart, now at Tesla. Shipped 21 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback. Before that: Booking Holdings and Databricks. Most at home with observability and Kubernetes. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

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service meshKubernetesBazelobservabilityBackstageGoBurp Suite

Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

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Looking for a design-minded co-founder for returns management for logistics fleets

The idea: Returns management for logistics fleets
Stage: Idea
I bring: 9 years in platform engineering
Looking for: Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment: Part-time to start
Location: Portland or remote

I bring 12 years of platform engineering (currently Tesla). Ideally you've run operations in Africa. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Portland, OR · remote OKkubernetesgoobservability

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Experience

Engineering Manager
Jun 2025 - Present
Tesla · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Portland, OR
- Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 344ms to 129ms.
- Built the experimentation framework 17 product teams use to ship changes safely.
- Led the migration of 22 services to service mesh.
Senior Platform Engineer
Dec 2021 - Jun 2025
Booking Holdings · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Portland, OR
- Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 328ms to 49ms.
- Moved 93% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Platform Engineer
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
Databricks · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Portland, OR
- Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 12 a week to 3.
Senior Platform Engineer
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
Spotify · 2 yr · Full-time · Portland, OR
- Led the migration of 16 services to service mesh.
- Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 23% in two quarters.
Platform Engineer
Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
Instacart · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Portland, OR
- Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 347ms to 162ms.

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Platform engineering benchmark

2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing service mesh and Backstage on real workloads.

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Education

Duke University
BS, Electronics and Communication
2009 - 2013

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