Madrid, Spain

Santiago Jimenez Quintero

Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer

Tech Lead focused on building reliable enterprise SaaS products and platform systems.

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About

Santiago Jimenez Quintero

I'm a Tech Lead at Alteryx with 6 years of experience building software products across backend, frontend, and platform systems.

My background is mainly in enterprise SaaS, working with Java, TypeScript, React, Node.js, SQL, microservices, workflow orchestration, CI/CD, and observability. I've worked on product features, service migrations, production deployments, monitoring with Datadog, and customer-critical issues.

I enjoy being close to the code while also helping teams make better technical decisions. I like breaking down ambiguous problems, discussing trade-offs, mentoring engineers, improving team processes, and building reliable software that has a real impact on users.

I'm especially interested in product and platform engineering, reliable systems, developer experience, and teams that value both technical quality and customer impact.

Current Role

Tech Lead

Alteryx · Madrid / Remote

Skills

Backend & Platform

JavaSpring BootNode.jsREST APIsSQLMicroservicesWorkflow Orchestration

Frontend & Product

TypeScriptReactProduct EngineeringUser-Facing Features

Reliability & Infrastructure

DatadogMonitoringAlertingLoggingCI/CDGitLab CI/CDArgoCDDockerKubernetes

Engineering Leadership

Technical DesignArchitecture ReviewsMentoringDocumentationCode ReviewsCross-Team CollaborationProduction Ownership

Education

Computer Science Degree

Universidad de Murcia, 2020

Experience

Mar 2026—Present

Tech Lead

Alteryx · Madrid / Remote

  • Tech Lead for enterprise SaaS platform initiatives, combining hands-on engineering with architecture, delivery coordination, mentoring, and production ownership.
  • Drive design and implementation work across platform architecture, service migrations, workflow capabilities, data lifecycle, security-related platform work, and developer experience.
  • Own and improve reliability areas including Datadog dashboards, workflow orchestration monitors, monitoring standards, incident analysis, and deployment practices.
  • Support the ownership and evolution of workflow orchestration capabilities, working through complex workflow, integration, and distributed-systems challenges.
  • Contribute to service migration work and event-driven synchronization between platform services.
  • Improve developer experience through deployment automation, local development proof-of-concepts, AI tooling experiments, documentation, and team enablement.
  • Help the team stay aligned through design reviews, code reviews, written proposals, lightweight progress updates, and cross-team communication.
JavaTypeScriptReactNode.jsDatadogCI/CDPlatform Engineering
Mar 2023—Mar 2026

Senior Software Engineer

Alteryx · Madrid / Remote

  • Led and delivered enterprise SaaS initiatives across Java, TypeScript, React, Node.js, SQL, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, workflow orchestration, Datadog, GitLab CI/CD, and ArgoCD.
  • Became a go-to engineer for backend design, workflow orchestration, monitoring, debugging, production issues, and complex technical decisions.
  • Migrated owned services and data flows towards a microservices architecture, improving scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Improved observability through Datadog dashboards, monitors, logging, alerting, and collaboration with SRE.
  • Took ownership of production deployment processes for team services, helping the team release more reliably and debug issues faster.
  • Led or contributed to major platform initiatives including workflow integrations, service migrations, event-driven service communication, task metadata, data lifecycle work, and monorepo decoupling.
  • Helped resolve customer-critical issues and production incidents, coordinating with Support, SRE, Product, QA, and adjacent engineering teams when needed.
  • Mentored teammates and new joiners through documentation, onboarding sessions, pair programming, code reviews, and technical guidance.
  • Wrote design documents, investigation notes, and reusable guides to improve team alignment, reduce unnecessary meetings, and make complex areas easier for others to work on.
JavaTypeScriptReactNode.jsSQLSpring BootDatadogArgoCD
Feb 2022—Feb 2023

Software Engineer

Alteryx · Remote

  • Built and maintained end-to-end product features across frontend and backend using TypeScript, Node.js, React, Java, SQL, REST APIs, Spring Boot, and workflow orchestration technologies.
  • Worked on product areas related to sharing, exporting, process orchestration, task execution, monitoring, and reliability.
  • Led a customer-facing feature epic involving changes across multiple services, coordinating with Engineering, Product, Design, and QA from design to delivery.
  • Contributed to monitoring and reliability initiatives that improved the team's ability to identify, debug, and resolve customer-facing issues.
  • Supported the transition after Trifacta's acquisition by Alteryx by adopting new tools and practices such as GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Datadog, and updated deployment workflows.
  • Created design documents, technical investigations, onboarding guides, and internal documentation for platform services and orchestration-related systems.
  • Mentored interns and new team members as a tech buddy, helping them onboard into the codebase, product area, and engineering practices.
  • Participated actively in architecture reviews, sprint planning, retrospectives, code reviews, and cross-team technical discussions.
TypeScriptNode.jsReactJavaSQLSpring BootGitLab CI/CD
Jan 2021—Feb 2022

Software Engineer

Trifacta · Berlin, Germany / Remote

  • Delivered product features and customer-facing improvements across backend and frontend systems.
  • Contributed to key projects in platform and orchestration-related product areas, improving product functionality, reliability, and user experience.
  • Organized and led weekly engineering knowledge-sharing meetings focused on architecture, internal systems, and new technologies.
  • Helped resolve customer-critical issues and supported collaboration across engineering, support, and product teams.
  • Took initiative beyond my immediate tasks by sharing knowledge, helping teammates, reviewing code, and contributing to internal technical discussions.
Node.jsReactJavaSQL
Jul 2020—Dec 2020

Software Engineer Intern

Trifacta · Berlin, Germany / Remote

  • Joined the engineering team as a full contributor, working across Node.js, React, Java, and product-facing features.
  • Quickly ramped up on the team's stack and contributed to projects that improved product functionality and user experience.
  • Won a company Hack Week prize for a localization project focused on improving the global user experience.
  • Converted to a full-time Software Engineer role after the internship.
Node.jsReactJava

Personal Projects

These are two products I've been building in 2026. Both started as rough ideas and helped me sharpen how I build, ship, and refine products end to end.

January 2026

VisualPost

www.visualpostai.com

Tool for turning LinkedIn posts into branded visuals

  • Built and launched a product that turns written LinkedIn posts into polished branded visuals in under a minute.
  • Designed and shipped the full stack myself using TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
  • Built with Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor as part of the development workflow, taking advantage of newer capabilities such as skills and MCP integrations to move faster during prototyping and implementation.
  • Added templates, styling controls, and brand customization so the output feels consistent without a lot of manual design work.
TypeScriptReactNode.jsAI Product DevelopmentFull-Stack Development
February 2026

My Oli Chef

www.myolichef.com

Recipe app for turning rough inputs into shareable recipes

  • Built and launched a product that turns handwritten recipes, voice notes, and pasted text into clean, shareable recipes.
  • Focused on making the flow simple so people can go from messy input to a usable result in a few minutes.
  • Built the product end to end with TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
  • Used Codex and Claude Code throughout development, including features such as skills and MCPs, to speed up iteration while keeping the product quality bar high.
  • Started with a loose idea and shaped the product by iterating on the UX and real use cases around preserving and sharing family recipes.
  • Put it in front of real users and used that feedback to keep improving the experience.
TypeScriptReactNode.jsAI WorkflowsProduct Engineering

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Let's work together

I'm especially interested in teams that care about building useful products quickly and thoughtfully. If that sounds relevant, feel free to reach out.

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