Diego Toharia is a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years building JVM-based, cloud-native systems and microservices, currently at Datadog after senior engineering roles at Twitter and AutoScout24. He specializes in Scala/Play, Groovy/Grails and Java frameworks (Spring Boot, Ratpack), and has deep hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kafka and devops practices from both development and sysadmin perspectives. Diego has led architectural migrations from datacenter .NET platforms to scalable AWS microservices and has driven cost-saving and organizational effectiveness initiatives as a Principal engineer. Comfortable across backend and frontend stacks, he pairs pragmatic system design with clean-code discipline and agile practices (XP/Scrum/Kanban). A former researcher in distributed systems and transactional memory, he brings a strong theoretical foundation to practical, production-grade architectures.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Colegio Arcángel
Postgraduate Master in Information Technologies Distributed Systems (primary specialization) and Programation Techniques (secondary specialization), Postgraduate Master in Information Technologies Distributed Systems (primary specialization) and Programation Techniques (secondary specialization) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Contributions:3 releases, 63 commits, 4 PRs in 9 years 7 months
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Diego Toharia - Staff Software Engineer at Datadog