Juan Mantica
Open Source Backend Engineer Go, Distributed Systems, Blockchain Infrastructure (Solana) at Open Source · Independent
Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Mantica is a backend engineer with eight years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure, currently focused on Solana and Go in open source. He has driven measurable performance and reliability gains—improving Solana snapshot gathering by 30% and optimizing validator throughput—while earlier delivering high-throughput services at Audible and driving multi-team roadmaps and feature-flag hygiene at Instacart. Comfortable across cloud, data, and infrastructure tooling (AWS, Terraform, Trino), he bridges product and platform needs to roll out complex changes safely in production. His background in academic distributed-systems research and hands-on supply-chain ops gives him a pragmatic systems perspective, blending rigorous performance tuning with operational discipline.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree Finance Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Finance Computer Science at Boston CollegeSpringboard
Github Skills (11)
java9
hardware9
database9
cassandra9
node-client8
fault-tolerance8
cloud-infrastructure7
blockchain5
distributed-database5
go4
solana4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
betcherj/DataMining_Proj
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes in 28 days
JuanMantica123/Veins_Research
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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