Helder Santana
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHelder Santana is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across eCommerce and enterprise domains. He has led teams and architecture efforts at companies like AUTO1, ABOUT YOU, and Nestpick, modernizing monoliths into microservices, implementing AWS-driven async patterns, and optimizing high-throughput Go gateway APIs. Known for combining hands-on coding with technical leadership, he has set up tech departments, established delivery best practices, and mentored teams while remaining deeply involved in architecture and implementation. Comfortable across PHP, Java, Go, Python and cloud platforms, Helder excels at turning legacy codebases into maintainable, testable systems and integrating data-driven features in collaboration with data science. An atypical strength is his track record of operationalizing CI/CD and containerized deployments early in projects, accelerating time-to-market for product teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal da BahiaHigh School, High School, High School, High School at IFBA - Instituto Federal da Bahia
Portuguese, English, German
Github Skills (34)
kubernetes10
catalog10
testing10
hat10
atlas10
kubernetes-operator10
infrastructure10
mongodb-cli10
golang10
mongodb-atlas10
mongodb10
cli10
operator10
lifecycle9
container-cop9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
helderjs/ArangoDbSilexServiceProvider
Jun 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
silexarangodb
helderjs/doctrine-mongo-odm
Sep 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 8 months
micro-frameworkphpdoctrinesymfonyorm
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