Julian Restrepo
SEngineering Manager at Vale · Developer tools
- Vale
- Buenos Aires, Argentina · ART (UTC-3)
- 13+ years experience
- PUCP
- English, Spanish
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Overview
I lead developer tools at Vale in Buenos Aires. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 5. Led the migration of 45 services to VS Code extensions. Before that: iFood and Google.
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Skills
RustcompilersCLI designTypeScriptC++LSPVS Code extensions
Experience
- Engineering ManagerMay 2024 - PresentVale · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 42 minutes to under 5.
- Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 13 a week to 1.
- Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 336ms to 166ms.
- Senior Software EngineerSep 2020 - May 2024iFood · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Wrote the CLI design service that now handles 60 million requests a day.
- Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
- Senior Software EngineerNov 2018 - Sep 2020Google · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Grew the developer experience team from 4 to 26 engineers.
- Wrote the Rust service that now handles 84 million requests a day.
- Senior Software EngineerMay 2017 - Nov 2018Ambev · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Led the migration of 27 services to LSP.
- Software EngineerApr 2014 - May 2017Deloitte · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 39 minutes to under 5.
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2025What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer tools.
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Education
- PUCPIngeniería, Mathematics2007 - 2011
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