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Alfonso Subiotto Marques

Staff Software Engineer at Polar Signals

Spain

Overview 

Alfonso Subiotto Marques is currently serving as a Staff Software Engineer at Polar Signals and as a Venture Partner at Lorimer Ventures, specializing in investments in devtools, data, and infrastructure sectors. With a background in senior software engineering roles at Cockroach Labs and experience as a computer science teaching assistant at Brown University, Alfonso focuses on investing in seed and pre-seed stages within various technology sectors, including enterprise infrastructure and developer tools.

Work Experience 

  • Staff Software Engineer

    2024 - Current

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2022 - 2024

Polar Signals is a profiling platform designed to measure and understand performance over time.

Raised $10,774,936.00 from Monica Sarbu, Spark Capital, Nikhil Benesch, Haystack, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Guillermo Rauch, Google Ventures, Lorimer Ventures, Julius Volz and Jimmy Zelinskie.

  • Venture Partner

    2022

Lorimer Ventures backs bold entrepreneurs building exceptional B2B companies.

  • Angel Investor

    2021

    Investing in data/devtools/infra. See my website to learn more.

  • Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead

    2019 - 2021

    • Led efforts to productionize a distributed vectorized query execution engine which resulted in 4x performance gains for our customers. Link to the blog post below. • Led a team that worked on designing and implementing disk infrastructure and algorithms for queries with high memory usage. Link to the blog post below. • Led efforts to improve performance observability of SQL workloads. All my work is open source: https://go.crdb.dev/p/asubiottoprs

  • Software Engineer

    2016 - 2019

    • Worked on the initial version of our distributed SQL query execution engine. • Implemented first version of graceful server shutdowns for rolling upgrades without workload performance hits. • Partially implemented first prototype of a local vectorized SQL execution engine. All my work is open source: https://go.crdb.dev/p/asubiottoprs

Cockroach Labs is a software company that develops a cloud-native SQL database for modern cloud applications.

Raised $633,100,000.00 from Index Ventures, Coatue, Bond, Altimeter Capital, FirstMark, Greenoaks, Google Ventures, K5 Global, Lone Pine Capital and JP Morgan Chase.

  • Lead Developer

    2014 - 2015

  • Software Engineering Intern

    2014 - 2014

    Eventually consistent storage.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Computer Science Teaching Assistant (CS16: Algorithms and Data Structures)

    2014 - 2014

    I was a teaching assistant for the introductory class on algorithms and data structures at Brown University, taught by David Laidlaw. I held office hours and graded projects and homework. Additionally, I taught small seminars with a fellow TA. These were multiple hour-long weekly meetings with subsets of students in which we reviewed and exercised concepts taught in class.

  • Computer Science Teaching Assistant (CS15: Programming in Java)

    2013 - 2013

    I graded student projects, held office hours and lab sessions, and amended lectures for the Intro to Programming in Java course (CS15) taught by Andy van Dam. This course had ~300 students.

  • Computer Science Tutor

    2013 - 2013

    I tutored students in Computer Science online at InstaEDU. These were mostly 2-3 hour lessons in which I helped students with Java, Python or Objective-C.

  • Software Developer Intern

    2013 - 2013

    I worked with a team of two developers, one designer, and one project manager to make one Android and two iOS apps, including building a node.js+MongoDB server for one of the iOS apps.

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