Summary
Israel Sant'anna is a Senior Back End Engineer from Paraná, Brazil with nearly a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade services using Python (Flask, FastAPI, asyncio), gRPC, Ruby on Rails and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS). He has led end-to-end projects from architecture to delivery—most notably an open educational resources platform for the Brazilian Ministry of Education that earned academic publications and a mention at the 2024 G20. At Celero and Sense he delivered mission-critical microservices, real-time WebSocket APIs and a gRPC interface that enabled third-party integrations and landed large financial and recruitment deals. Comfortable both mentoring teams and shipping code, he blends systems thinking (CQRS/SAGA, messaging, Redis/Postgres) with a customer-first focus and a track record of measurable business impact. He’s passionate about using software for social good and often applies research-inspired ideas—like collective-intelligence search—to improve real user outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Technical degree, Information Technology, Technical degree, Information Technology at Instituto Federal do Paraná - IFPR (Curitiba)
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Paraná
English, Portuguese, Spanish