Daryll Santos
Software Engineer at Padlet
Singapore
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDaryll Santos is a versatile full-stack engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable products for millions of users, currently shaping educational tools at Padlet. He blends front-end expertise (Angular, React, Vue) with Rails back-end work and growing DevOps skills, having led cross-team initiatives that turned engineer-only systems into non-technical platforms and enabled safe A/B testing. At Ascenda he helped bootstrap a configuration-driven platform used by 10+ engineers across 20+ clients, improved performance by shrinking bundles dramatically, and shipped high-volume shopping cart flows. A relentless learner, he has documented over 100,000 lines of notes in a popular lifelong-learning repo and completed 19 Coursera courses, reflecting a curiosity that spans tech to Assyrian history. Known for improving developer experience with practical tools (local-tenant scripts, Chrome extensions) and mentoring peers, he pairs deep hands-on craft with product-focused impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, 1.37 (highest possible: 1.0), Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, 1.37 (highest possible: 1.0) at University of the EastBS Chemical Engineering, BS Chemical Engineering at University of the Philippines
Filipino, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
2,061reputation
269kreached
30answers
65questions
Github Skills (21)
elixir10
ruby10
ruby-rails9
rails9
rspec8
markdown7
markdown-it7
factory-bot6
co6
ruby-on-rails6
error-handling6
tera6
sinatra6
devise6
rs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
daryllxd/lifelong-learning
Oct 2013 - Jan 2023
✅ ✅ ✅ A massive repo filled with notes on everything from coding to philosophy to psychology to marketing to product
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1649 commits, 2 PRs, 669 pushes in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Daryll primarily contributed to the repository by adding content and code examples. Contributions included notes on Ruby on Rails configuration, content for a Coursera course on content strategy, cleaning up code smells in an RSpec book, and Elixir code examples, including an exercise from Programming Elixir. Furthermore, the user added cheat sheets and demonstrated an understanding of Ruby gems.
everythingnotespythonpsychologymarketing
daryllxd/til
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
👊👊👊 Today I Learned: To get better, I write down bugfixes, musings and small smidgets of my work day here. 250+ entries. Access it at https://til.daryll.codes.
Contributions:588 commits, 342 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
vimlearneddayneovimbugfixes
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