Elder Santos
Chief Technology Officer at Toptal
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolElder Santos is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over a decade of hands-on software engineering experience and more than five years leading product and engineering teams. As co-founder and CTO at Nullafi, he architects cloud-native, data-protection platforms that balance strict security with seamless business workflows, drawing on prior leadership building Brazil’s first fully cloud tax solution. His background includes senior engineering roles at Sony Media Cloud and a formative tenure at Microsoft Innovation Center, giving him deep expertise across .NET, cloud services, serverless architectures and machine learning. Holding a Master’s in Machine Learning, he blends research-informed ML techniques with practical product delivery to enhance user experiences and scale systems. Known for mentoring high-performing teams, he pairs an engineer’s curiosity with an operator’s discipline and a knack for turning regulated, complex domains into elegant, secure products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Machine Learning, Master’s Degree, Machine Learning at Universidade Federal de São PauloBachelor's degree, System information, Bachelor's degree, System information at Universidade Federal de São Carlos
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (33)
libray10
dotnet8
alias8
csharp8
open-data6
rabbitmq6
fluentmigrator6
excel6
visual-studio6
asp-net-mvc6
json6
crawler5
artificial-intelligence4
machine-learning4
security4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
eldersantos/winston-postgre
Jul 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
postgresql-databasewinstonpostgresdatabasetransporter
Joinesty/srpdotnet
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 29 pushes in 7 days
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