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Jorge Domínguez Arnáez

Jorge Domínguez Arnáez

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Mallow, Cork, IE
+353 89 600 4663
Spanish, English

Background


About

About

Senior Backend Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing scalable distributed systems and optimizing cloud infrastructure. Proven track record of reducing system costs by up to 85% and improving performance from minutes to seconds through architecture redesign. Strong expertise in Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, with a focus on high-performance APIs, database optimization, CI/CD automation and scalable backend systems. Passionate about modern languages like Rust, Go and Kotlin with Rust experience in production systems.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Backend Software Engineer, Dataships

    Dec, 2024 - Jul, 20257 months

    Develop and maintain systems that connect to Shopify and marketing platforms like Klaviyo and Yotpo to provide customers a compliant solution to maximize their marketable audience.

    • Built modular abstractions for marketing platform integrations, enabling faster addition of new platforms and supporting product growth.

    • Designed and implemented a scalable policy management service using Twig templates, significantly improving system reliability.

    • Contributed to a large Symfony-based API serving multiple clients (internal tools, Shopify app, external integrations).

    • Maintenance of a React application for customers to administer their account and audit the marketability of their audiences.

  • Senior Backend Software Engineer, Vectary

    Jun, 2021 - Jul, 20243 years 1 month

    Redesigned core backend architecture by replacing a microservices cluster with a unified GraphQL API, improving response times from minutes to under 10 seconds for complex operations.

    • Reduced infrastructure costs from ~€50K/month to ~€7K/month (~85% reduction) by migrating from EFS to S3 and redesigning data storage architecture.

    • Designed and implemented a new PostgreSQL schema with full-text search (TSVector/TSQuery), improving search performance and enabling new product features.

    • Implemented a PostgreSQL-based versioning system using triggers, history tables and high-performance queries using ARRAY_AGG and COALESCE to efficiently reconstruct past states of data.

    • Replaced a distributed microservices/SQS-based system with a real-time GraphQL API, simplifying architecture and improving reliability.

    • Built scalable infrastructure using AWS ECS, S3, and Aurora capable of handling 20–30× the expected load.

    • Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket and container-based deployments

  • Full Stack and Systems Engineer, Lácteos Martínez

    Nov, 2020 - Dec, 20211 year 1 month

    Designed and implemented a custom SCADA system using Rust, replacing a 20-year-old legacy solution.

    • Built low-level services communicating with industrial PLCs (Omron) via UDP.

    • Designed time-series data storage using TimescaleDB for efficient aggregation and querying.

    • Delivered real-time monitoring dashboards using D3.js.

  • Lead Web Software Engineer, Ludei

    Aug, 2015 - Feb, 20193 years 6 months

    Led technical direction of the Cocoon.io web platform as the sole frontend engineer, owning architecture and delivery.

    • Built and maintained cross-platform build systems in Node.js. Targeting macOS, Linux, and Windows.

    • Develop and maintain the new compiler in Node.js/Typescript which had to run on MacOS, Ubuntu and Windows 10. Open sourced at https://github.com/CocoonIO/cocoon-compiler.

    • Aid on the development of the Atomic Plugins. Libraries that abstracted features of different Operative Systems to be usable in web applications. Open sourced at https://github.com/ludei/atomic-plugins-ads.

    • Develop the isomorphic SDK of Cocoon.io for the browser and Node.js. Open sourced at https://github.com/CocoonIO/cocoon-cloud-sdk.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Homelab Server

    Jan, 2020 - Present

    Designed and managed a multi-server homelab environment running virtual machines and containerized services to serve all the members of the family.

    • Configured networking, DNS, and virtualization (KVM, QEMU, libvirt).

    • Hosted services including media systems, security (NVR), and internal infrastructure tools.

    • Implemented storage, backup, and redundancy strategies to ensure data reliability.

    • Maintained an observability stack of Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Alloy and cAdvisor.

  • UPV/EHU Project: The Secret Life of Words

    Nov, 2019 - Sep, 202010 months

    Usage of machine learning and word embeddings technologies to implement a tool to aid health professionals in decision making.

    • Replication of the YerevaNN benchmarks for the MIMIC-III dataset.

Skills

Skills

  • Backend & Systems

    Node.js/Typescript

    Deno

    Rust

    REST & GraphQL APIs

    Distributed Systems

    Microservices

  • Databases

    PostgreSQL

    MySQL/MariaDB

    MongoDB

    Redis

    Query Optimization

    Indexing

    Full-text Search

  • Cloud & DevOps

    AWS

    Google Cloud

    Docker

    ELK Stack

    Github Actions

    Bitbucket Pipelines

    Jenkins

    Cost Optimization

    Scaling

Education

Education

  • Computer Engineering, University Degree, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Sep, 2012 - Jun, 2016

  • Technology, High School Diploma, Instituto Marqués de la Ensenada

    Sep, 2010 - Jun, 2012

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Organization - Local Arrangements, International Conference on Parsing Technologies

    Jul, 2015 - Jul, 2015

References

References

  • Stephen Farrel - Dataships

    https://linkedin.com/in/stephenfarrell

  • Tim Humphries - Dataships

    https://linkedin.com/in/tim-humphries-b5b68194

  • Peter Bero - Vectary

    https://linkedin.com/in/peter-bero-4a2869

  • Lukas Vencelik - Vectary

    https://linkedin.com/in/lukas-vencelik