Derek Santos
Software Engineer Technical Leader I at Cisco
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Santos is a full-stack software engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building security automation and orchestration solutions for Fortune 500 clients at Cisco. He combines cloud-native and microservices architecture with hands-on development across multiple languages, consistently delivering production-grade systems in cybersecurity contexts. His background includes applied research in computer vision, Bluetooth Low Energy, and event analysis at North Carolina universities, reflecting a knack for turning academic problems into practical engineering solutions. Based in Raleigh, he also authors technical content and has a track record of advancing through successive engineering roles into leadership while maintaining a passion for automation and developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of North Carolina at CharlotteAssociate of Engineering Computer Science, Associate of Engineering Computer Science at Wake Technical Community College
English
Stackoverflow
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10answers
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Github Skills (36)
proton10
steamworks10
steam10
directories9
imgur9
compatibility9
wine9
copilot9
cisco8
api8
automated-build8
html-to-docx8
api-client8
openai-api7
vulnerabilities6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
santosderek/Website-Scrubber
Aug 2017 - Oct 2020
A script that will scrub a server's directories for direct downloads.
Contributions:1 review, 14 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 2 months
downloaderdirectdirectoriesscrub
santosderek/Imgur-To-Folder
Apr 2017 - Oct 2022
Download Imgur albums and images to desired folder
Contributions:1 release, 120 commits, 13 PRs in 5 years 7 months
imguralbumsdownload-imgur-albumsdownload-imgur-images
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