Javier Dutan
Technical Founder & Builder — I build things people want and connect people who should know each other
I'm a first-generation American who's been building things since college — starting with a small restaurant in Brooklyn, then getting into Bitcoin early with a payments startup in 2012 (too early, learned a lot).
That led me to Sabor, a restaurant POS that grew to 12,000+ restaurants in 80+ countries. After that chapter closed, I switched sides and spent years recruiting engineers — first at Reddit and other tech companies, then at the White House with USDS, helping federal agencies find technical talent.
Now I'm back to building. RecruitingLM uses AI to help companies evaluate candidates they can't personally assess — think behavioral fit and skills beyond the resume. Civ makes it easier to find government jobs. I'm also a Partner at Awana, where we place LATAM engineers with U.S. startups (130+ placed, 98% success rate).
I've started things that worked and things that didn't. Both taught me something.