Summary
Denys Santos is a senior software engineer and tech lead with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms, specializing in Ruby on Rails, React/Next.js, and payments integrations. He has led backend teams at travel and fintech companies, owning payment systems, legacy refactors, automated testing, and architecture decisions for products that have supported hundreds of thousands of bookings. Comfortable across the stack and infra — Docker, AWS, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ — he’s known for improving code quality, onboarding practices, and interview processes. Denys pairs hands-on development with product-oriented thinking, frequently shaping business rules and billing models alongside engineers and PMs. Based in Lisbon, he brings a steady record of shipping mission-critical integrations and pragmatic technical leadership in fast-growing, customer-facing environments.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Curso Superior de Tecnologia (CST), Information Technology, Curso Superior de Tecnologia (CST), Information Technology at Unipar - Universidade Paranaense
English, Spanish, Portuguese