Mariano Carballal
Engineer Manager Taktile (YC 20)
Berlin, Spain
Summary
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RockstarMariano Carballal is an engineering leader and full-stack developer with 13 years of experience, currently managing engineering at Taktile (YC 20) while also serving as Staff Software Engineer. He specializes in backend systems and has over four years of focused experience designing, developing, and maintaining GraphQL services using Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript, with production contributions in Go, Python, PHP and some Java. Mariano pairs deep systems knowledge—networking, performance, observability and operations—with hands-on coding, enabling reliable, scalable services in fast-moving environments. He has three years of people-management experience overseeing ~20 direct reports across on-site and remote contractor teams, balancing technical leadership with team development. His trajectory includes senior and principal engineering roles at Zalando and early public-sector technical leadership in Buenos Aires, reflecting both large-scale commerce systems and civic tech exposure. Based in Berlin and originally from Spain, he brings a pragmatic, cross-cultural approach to building production-grade distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (173)
composition10
reverse-proxy10
proxy10
dkan10
contour10
keep-alive10
javascript10
modularity10
enums10
skipper10
react-component10
ckan10
dependency-free10
mosaic10
golang10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NuCivic/dataql
Feb 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:35 commits, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
javascriptsqldatabasedataql
gcba/open-challenge
Aug 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 1 year 1 month
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