Raquel Goncalves

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Staff Software Engineer at Glovo · Distributed databases

Glovo
Lisbon, Portugal · WET (UTC+0)
9+ years experience
Sorbonne University
English, Portuguese
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Overview

I work on distributed databases at Glovo in Lisbon. Built the experimentation framework 21 product teams use to ship changes safely. I teach a weekend class on C++.

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Skills
C++rate limitingRustRaftperformance engineeringRocksDBconsensus
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Co-writing a guide about distributed databases - looking for a co-author

Project
A guide about distributed databases - looking for a co-author
Skills needed
Design, Marketing
Time commitment
Weekends
Outcome
Open-source release

Weekends only. Based in Lisbon, happy to work remotely.

Lisbon, Portugal · remote OKrocksdbrate limitingc++
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Experience

  1. Staff Software Engineer
    Dec 2023 - Present
    Glovo · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Moved 82% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 18% in two quarters.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 34 a week to 3.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Sep 2022 - Dec 2023
    BlaBlaCar · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Grew the storage team from 4 to 33 engineers.
    • Led the migration of 62 services to rate limiting.
  3. Software Engineer
    Nov 2018 - Sep 2022
    Criteo · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Shipped 28 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 19% in two quarters.
  4. Software Engineer
    Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
    Airbus · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 39 a week to 3.

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Education

  1. Sorbonne University
    Licence, Electronics and Communication
    2013 - 2016

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