Summary
Diego De Santiago is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Puerto Vallarta with 11 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and guiding architecture for product and contractor teams. He has delivered scalable microservice and event-driven solutions for large platforms including Warner Bros. Discovery (user identity) and Rappi (inventory), and now focuses on data-driven content performance at Wizeline. Comfortable across the stack, Diego applies TDD/BDD, reactive programming, Kafka, and gRPC to solve operational challenges and improve system reliability. He brings startup grit from CTO and full-stack roles and hands-on cryptography experience designing hardware secure modules, a less obvious thread that informs his attention to secure, resilient designs. Despite a modest personal credo about degrees, his track record shows practical leadership in both enterprise and startup environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Systems Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico Mario Molina, Unidad Puerto Vallarta