Karina Hraste
Director Of Engineering at Eventbrite
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolKarina Hraste is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience and over a decade in senior management roles, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Eventbrite from Madrid. She leads large, distributed teams across Europe and India, overseeing mobile creator apps and driving product and hiring strategy while directly managing five engineering managers and nearly 50 reports. Karina blends hands-on engineering roots (Python/Django, mobile, CI/CD, Kafka) with strong people leadership—launching mentorship programs, improving onboarding, and creating blameless, diverse teams that raised app ratings and service resilience. Known for running cross-functional hiring and talent programs beyond engineering, she has a track record of moving frontend out of monoliths, defining Tier1 SLAs, and scaling systems that send millions of notifications. Her background as an educator and university software engineer adds a pragmatic coaching style and commitment to developer growth.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer (Graduated) Engineering, Software Engineer (Graduated) Engineering at Universidad de Mendoza
Spanish, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kaluli/QueryOptimizer
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:87 commits, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
kaluli/Wordpress-Site
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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