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Marco Altran

Senior Software Engineer — Search Infrastructure & Applied AI

10+ years across search infrastructure, applied AI, fintech, distributed systems, and startup leadership. Currently on the index team at Kagi, building large-scale crawl, index, and search systems.

· LinkedIn · University of Sao Paulo, BS Information Systems

10+ years exp
100M+ pages indexed at Kagi
70% AI resolution via Applied AI at Automattic
~$500k/yr AI revenue impact at WordPress.com Support
experience
2025 – now

Kagi

Senior Software Engineer, Index Team

Built and operate Kagi's web crawling and indexing infrastructure. 100M+ pages/month, distributed across Kafka, Vespa, and Kubernetes. Read the blog post for more details.

2020 – 2025

Automattic

Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI & Tumblr

Led customer support AI agents for WordPress.com and Woo (10% to 70% resolution). Built evaluation pipelines, delivered Tumblr monetization features, and resolved high-impact security issues.

2018 – 2020

Altbank

Engineering Manager & Software Architect

Employee #1. Launched digital banking platform in 12 months. 10k+ accounts in three months. Led cross-functional team of nine.

2014 – 2018

Telep

Founder & CEO

Built and scaled B2C to B2B telecom/CRM platform. Clients: Porto Seguro, Ernst & Young. Backed by Plug & Play.

stack
Python Rust Kotlin Java Kafka Redis PostgreSQL Vespa Docker Kubernetes AWS GCP LangChain LlamaIndex Elasticsearch