Summary
Juan Santana is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Madrid with nearly a decade of professional experience building APIs and web platforms, predominantly with Ruby on Rails and PHP. He has progressed from IT support and web development roles to lead developer and senior engineering positions at companies like DADA.nyc, Selectra, and Workpath, pairing hands-on coding with system maintenance and DevOps work across Ubuntu, Kubernetes, Heroku and cloud providers. Comfortable across the stack, he also brings JavaScript front-end experience and has explored Ethereum smart contract development, signaling curiosity for emerging technologies. His background combines pragmatic legacy-system knowledge with modern API-driven architecture, and he maintains a public technical presence through personal sites and GitHub showcasing his work.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at Central University of Venezuela
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Emil Friedman
Spanish, English