Jezz Santos
Founder at SaaStacked
Greater Kapiti Area New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJezz Santos is a strategic product and engineering leader with 13+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS and IoT platforms, from Microsoft developer tooling to bootstrapped startups and investor-backed ventures. As a former Principal Product Architect at Microsoft and multiple-time co-founder, he turns early-stage chaos into product-led growth by blending deep technical architecture with creative product vision and strong team coaching. He founded SaaStack to codify his lessons into an open-source SaaS starter codebase that accelerates launch velocity and prevents costly rewrites, and has contributed to notable OSS projects like ServiceStack to improve framework internals. Known for leading large remote teams and delivering dramatic operational improvements—cutting costs, slashing incidents, and tripling release cadence—he pairs empathy with rigor to build durable, outcome-focused cultures. Based in New Zealand, he’s equally at home mentoring founders, architecting scalable platforms, and shipping fast under pressure—once even rebuilding a SaaS product in three months.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Engineering at Lakeland UniversityBatchelors Engineering Electronic Engineering, Batchelors Engineering Electronic Engineering at The University of ManchesterBachelors Engineering (B. Eng with Honours) Electronic Engineering, Bachelors Engineering (B. Eng with Honours) Electronic Engineering at University of Southampton
Finnish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
application-framework10
testing10
app-framework10
webservice10
web-framework10
csharp10
spring-ioc9
json9
io9
dryioc9
caching8
netcore7
servicestack6
rest6
angularjs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ServiceStack/ServiceStack
Mar 2017 - Mar 2020
Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jezz primarily focused on enhancing the ServiceStack framework's testing and core functionalities. Their contributions included updating the `MockHttpResponse.cs` class with refined exception handling and cookie management. Furthermore, the user added functionality to the IOC container, specifically the `GetServiceEntryNamed<T>` and `ExistsNamed<T>` methods. The user also exposed the `Prefix` property in `CacheClientWithPrefix.cs` and modified `ServiceClientBase.cs`, demonstrating their involvement in improving framework internals.
actionscriptcsvxmlnet-frameworkframework
jezzsantos/ServiceStack
Mar 2017 - Jul 2021
Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
web-services
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