Summary
Bruno Santos is a Lead Developer based in Lisbon with 12 years of experience building platform and cloud-native systems, currently leading Platform Engineering projects at Sky Technology Centre Portugal. He has deep hands-on expertise in Go and Kubernetes coupled with a strong background in Java/Kotlin microservices, Spring Boot, and observability tooling like Prometheus and Grafana. His career spans roles from R&D and academic teaching to project management and large-scale production engineering, giving him a rare blend of research-driven problem solving and delivery-focused leadership. He has modernized services and infrastructure across messaging, storage and monitoring stacks (MySQL, Cassandra, Docker, Jenkins) and driven performance and quality improvements in high-traffic products. Notably, his early work includes agent-based intelligent systems and sensor-monitoring platforms, reflecting a long-standing interest in applying AI and distributed architectures to real-world problems. Practical, technically curious, and results-oriented, he combines architecture vision with day-to-day coding and team mentorship.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
College degree, Computer Engineering, 16, College degree, Computer Engineering, 16 at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Colegio Sagrado Coração de Maria