Summary
Martin Giannechini is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-throughput, resilient distributed systems and web platforms across startups and hyperscale companies. He has driven ingestion and catalog services at Amazon that handle nearly a million requests per second and now focuses on ensuring data completeness at Datadog to prevent false-positive alerts at hundreds-of-millions-of-points-per-second scale. Pragmatic and results-oriented, he blends backend performance engineering with practical DevOps—CI/CD, IaC, load testing—and has led cross-team re-architectures like PedidosYa’s web platform rollout. Martin pairs hands-on coding with technical leadership, hiring, and teaching, and intentionally tackles unfamiliar technologies to expand his toolkit. Based in London, he is committed to simplifying complex problems into maintainable solutions and becoming a recognized technical expert in large-scale systems. An interesting facet of his career is frequent role-switching between deep systems engineering and developer-facing platform work, giving him a rare perspective on both operational reliability and developer velocity.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computers Engineering (Revalidated), Computers Engineering (Revalidated) at Universidad de la República
Information Systems Engineering, Information Systems Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
English, Spanish