Juan Santos is a Head of Engineering based in Quito with 11 years of experience building mission-critical systems that move millions per day and lean startup products alike. He blends hands-on software development and operations, favoring functional languages and strong type systems—Haskell, Scala, Clojure—while also working in Ruby, Python and modern JavaScript. Known for advocating clean code, solid specifications, and automated testing, he advances reliability through DevOps practices and pragmatic architecture. At Precog he progressed from Senior Engineer to Head of Engineering, demonstrating both technical depth and people leadership. Beyond shipping production systems, he brings a curiosity for functional programming patterns and type-driven design that inform safer, more maintainable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería Computer Science, Ingeniería Computer Science at Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Quasar Analytics is a general-purpose compiler for translating data processing and analytics over semi-structured data into efficient plans that run 100% in the target infrastructure.
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