Duarte Jimenez

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Director of Engineering at Woven Works · Distributed databases · consensus, performance engineering

Woven Works
Madrid, Spain · CET (UTC+1)
9+ years experience
University of Amsterdam
English, Spanish
Co-founder
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Overview

Based in Madrid. I lead distributed databases at Woven Works. Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

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Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
consensusC++performance engineeringRust
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 4 months

Need a technical co-founder: payroll in the US

The idea
Payroll in the US
Stage
Prototype
I bring
8 years in distributed databases
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Madrid or remote

I bring 13 years of distributed databases (currently Woven Works). Ideally you've run operations in India. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Madrid, Spainconsensusrustperformance engineering
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2025 - Present
    Woven Works · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
    • Built the experimentation framework 37 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped 21 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 40 a week to 4.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    Feb 2024 - Sep 2025
    Meta · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 19 a week to 3.
    • Led the migration of 19 services to consensus.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2022 - Feb 2024
    Mollie · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
    • Built the experimentation framework 29 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
    Upland Logistics · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
    • Built the experimentation framework 8 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the storage team from 4 to 40 engineers.
  5. Software Engineer
    Jan 2018 - Jun 2020
    Klarna · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 814ms to 49ms.
    • Shipped 24 launches on the storage team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. University of Amsterdam
    BSc, Information Technology
    2009 - 2012

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