Ajiemar Santiago
Engineering Manager at IBM Watson
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarAjiemar Santiago is an Engineering Manager based in Austin with a decade of experience leading software teams and shipping developer-facing tooling. He blends hands-on engineering—contributions to IBM Watson SDKs in Swift, Java, and Python—with operational improvements in build, deployment, and security scanning. His mobile work added Core ML image-classification support to the Watson Swift SDK, enabling local on-device inference, while backend and DevOps changes improved SDK reliability and compliance. Comfortable across full-stack, mobile, and platform engineering, he combines technical depth with a focus on developer experience and production readiness. An understated strength is his track record of refactoring and modernization that smooths cross-language SDK maintenance and developer adoption.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (28)
apim10
ios10
python10
ibm-cloud10
coreml10
cicd10
java10
machine-vision10
javas10
api10
sdk10
build-automation10
computer-vision10
swift10
watson9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
watson-developer-cloud/swift-sdk
Mar 2018 - Aug 2021
:iphone: The Watson Swift SDK enables developers to quickly add Watson Cognitive Computing services to their Swift applications.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:10 reviews, 30 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ajiemar significantly contributed to the iOS Swift SDK for Watson services, specifically focusing on integrating Core ML functionality. They implemented Core ML models for image classification, including converting model output, filtering results, and managing background processing. The user also refactored code to work with `Data` instead of `NSData` and made adjustments for JSON handling. Their work enhanced the SDK's capabilities by enabling local model classification within iOS applications.
iphoneibm-watson-speechcognitivecognitive-computingsdk
watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk
Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
:snake: Client library to use the IBM Watson services in Python and available in pip as watson-developer-cloud
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 42 commits, 30 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ajiemar's primary contributions appear to be focused on integrating and testing new features related to the IBM Watson Assistant service within the Python SDK. They demonstrate an understanding of integrating external services and modifying the existing codebase to include functionalities for AppScan and websocket communication, and also performed merges and updated versions. Their work encompassed both backend and integration testing for the API and its associated libraries.
pythonpipclient-librarysnakewatson-developer-cloud
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