Rodrigo Munoz

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Software Engineer at Tidal Cloud | ex-Kavak

Tidal Cloud
Montevideo, Uruguay · UYT (UTC-3)
2+ years experience
Universidade de São Paulo
English, Spanish
Open to work
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Overview

Currently at Tidal Cloud, where I work on distributed databases. Moved 84% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Previously at Kavak. Most at home with RocksDB and Rust. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

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  • Roles in distributed databases
  • Second opinions on Raft decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about distributed databases
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Skills
RustC++consensusRaftRocksDB
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Lead Software Engineer roles in e-commerce - Montevideo or remote

Target roles
Lead Software Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Logistics, B2B SaaS
Work mode
On-site
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Uruguay
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series B) where distributed databases is core to the product.
Not interested in
Crypto

2 years in distributed databases. Strongest at consensus and RocksDB. Open to the right conversation.

Montevideo, Uruguayrocksdbc++raft
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Experience

  1. Software Engineer
    Sep 2025 - Present
    Tidal Cloud · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Montevideo, Uruguay
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 315ms to 140ms.
    • Wrote the consensus service that now handles 81 million requests a day.
  2. Software Engineer
    Oct 2024 - Sep 2025
    Kavak · 11 mo · Contract · Montevideo, Uruguay
    • Moved 66% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. Universidade de São Paulo
    Bacharelado, Electrical Engineering
    2019 - 2023

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