Juan Tellez
Senior Director Of Engineering, Capella at Couchbase
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Tellez is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling distributed systems, currently leading Capella’s global control plane engineering. He has a strong track record of recruiting and growing large, multicultural teams across startups and enterprises, driving two successful exits and major product launches under tight timelines. Juan combines deep hands-on technical experience—from clusterware and RAFT-based synchronization to DBaaS control planes—with pragmatic process design that accelerated feature delivery and operational maturity. He is the inventor on 18 U.S. patents in distributed systems, cloud, and auth technologies, and has led SOC2 and PCI-DSS certifications for production-grade services. A Colombian-born naturalized American, he brings a global perspective and has even captained a transoceanic sailing voyage, reflecting a taste for ambitious, well-planned undertakings. Juan’s strengths lie in turning complex architectures into reliable, extensible platforms while fostering high team morale and measurable productivity gains.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Northwestern University
Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (43)
garmin10
kubernetes10
nmea10
databases10
paxos10
scale-out10
gps-tracker10
sql10
high-performance10
cpp10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
ais10
database10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
juanman2/emacs.d
Jul 2019 - Nov 2021
New dot emacs built from scratch for cpp and Go
Contributions:13 PRs, 20 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 3 months
golangcppdotemacsdotfiles
juanman2/Env2
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Next Gen Env files
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
envnext-gengen
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