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Director, Core Engineering at LocalStack
📍 Germany

Duncan is a software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience, specializing in building and managing distributed teams. He holds an MSc from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and is recognized for his numerous open-source contributions. People who have worked with him describe him as both passionate and talented.

Outside of his formal roles, Duncan is deeply engaged in the open-source community, having started multiple projects and contributed to major ones like Salt and Spacewalk. His personal blog reveals interests in restoring vintage computers, exploring new software technologies like Wireguard and Litestream, and playing guitar.

He started the Kopete multi-protocol chat client, which became the second most popular messenger in the Linux world at the time.

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Experience
20 Years
Current Role
Director, Core Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Germany
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Open-Source Leadership
He has a long history of creating and contributing to high-impact open-source projects, including a Terraform provider with over 1. 6k stars on GitHub.
Distributed Systems
His career focuses on building and running international/distributed teams and he shows interest in technologies for resilient and performant distributed applications like Litestream.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
Director, Core Engineering
LocalStack
5-2023 - 5-2025
VP of Engineering
refurbed
4-2022 - 5-2023
Director Of Engineering
refurbed
7-2021 - 3-2022
Engineering Lead
refurbed
3-2021 - 6-2021
VP of Engineering
CodeNotary
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Education
2004 - 2005
MSc.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
1998 - 2004
Industrial Civil Engineer
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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