Martina Andrea Hernandez

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VP of Engineering, Cobalt Logistics - consensus · Raft · performance engineering

Cobalt Logistics
Madrid, Spain · CET (UTC+1)
13+ years experience
University of Amsterdam
English, Spanish
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Cobalt Logistics, focused on distributed databases. Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: TotalEnergies and Criteo. Most at home with Burp Suite and consensus. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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Skills
consensusC++performance engineeringBurp SuiteRaft

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Mar 2024 - Present
    Cobalt Logistics · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 6.
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 415ms to 88ms.
    • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Apr 2022 - Mar 2024
    TotalEnergies · 1 yr 11 mo · Contract · Madrid, Spain
    • Led or co-led 9 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
  3. Software Engineer
    Apr 2019 - Apr 2022
    Criteo · 3 yr · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 34% in two quarters.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Jan 2016 - Apr 2019
    Microsoft · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
    • Backed 54 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
  5. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2013 - Jan 2016
    Cabify · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
    • Built the experimentation framework 36 product teams use to ship changes safely.

Projects

Open-source consensus toolkit
2025

A small library for distributed databases that 148 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. University of Amsterdam
    BSc, Information Technology
    1997 - 2000

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