Carlos Santana
Sr. WW Containers Specialist SA at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolCarlos Santana is a senior AWS Solutions Architect specializing in Amazon EKS and container-native application modernization, with over 20 years of hands-on experience across distributed systems, serverless, DevOps, and mobile. As Sr. WW Containers Specialist on the Worldwide Application Modernization team, he blends customer-facing technical leadership with public speaking at KubeCon, DockerCon and industry meetups. A CNCF Ambassador and Knative co-founder/steering committee alum, he contributes to Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Crossplane and Knative while mentoring new open-source contributors. His OSS footprint spans practical developer tooling and docs—improving EKS workshops, Knative docs and core Apache projects like Cordova and OpenWhisk—demonstrating both build/release and runtime expertise. Based in Raleigh, NC, he pairs enterprise architecture experience from IBM to AWS with a knack for improving developer workflows and automating stable test/cleanup pipelines. Colleagues rely on him for translating research-level cloud-native ideas (eg. cold-start and eventing) into production-ready patterns and teachable workshops.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityB.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Universidad de Puerto RicoSenior, High School, Senior, High School at Juan Alejo Arizmendi
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (55)
cli10
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
javascript10
scripting10
cordova10
testing10
cloudevents10
command-line-interface10
bash10
build-system10
mkdocs10
dockers10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
apache/openwhisk
Oct 2016 - Feb 2019
Apache OpenWhisk is an open source serverless cloud platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 99 commits, 597 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily contributed to the OpenWhisk project by improving the build and deployment processes, integrating Jenkins for Docker image pushes to DockerHub. They also modified the backend configuration and dependencies, and enhanced the integration with external services, such as CouchDB. Additional changes included updating links to Apache resources.
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knative/docs
May 2020 - Oct 2022
User documentation for Knative components.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 295 reviews, 65 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily contributed to the Knative documentation repository, focusing on enhancing the documentation, build processes, and deployment workflows. They implemented code samples for CloudEvents in Node.js, fixing issues related to SDK compatibility and ensuring the samples functioned correctly. Additionally, the user introduced and refined the Docker-based development workflow and automated deployment to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions, significantly improving the developer experience and documentation accessibility.
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