Javier Dutan
I build things people want and connect people who should know each other
I'm a first-generation American who started building businesses early - launching my own restaurant chain, Castillo, in Brooklyn while still in college (2010-2014).
In 2012, I founded Novaux, a Bitcoin payments startup. Afterwards, I combined my experience in payments and restaurants to create Sabor (2015-2017), a restaurant POS system that scaled to over 12,000+ restaurants across 80+ countries, processing millions in transactions globally.
After building and scaling global startups, I transitioned to recruiting at Reddit and other companies, bringing my operator perspective to finding technical talent. In 2022, I joined the White House as a Senior Technical Recruiter for the U.S. Digital Service, recruiting across 10+ federal agencies and placing senior technical leaders in critical government roles.
My latest project is Civ, the comprehensive job platform for government careers that I founded in 2025. I'm also a Partner at Awana, my main company where we've placed hundreds of engineers from LATAM with U.S. startups. Having built global startups, worked in government, and recruited at scale, I saw the massive opportunity to bridge talent across these worlds.