Julian Santos
Senior Software Engineer at Apply Digital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJulian Santos is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building high-impact front-end solutions for fintechs, edtech, and data-analysis startups, now based in Toronto. He specializes in React/Next.js/Gatsby and TypeScript, and pairs strong UI/UX sensibilities and tooling (Figma, Photoshop) with cloud deployments on AWS and Google Cloud. Julian has led large refactors and performance efforts—supporting edX builds, Optimizely experiments, and Gatsby Cloud monitoring—while championing test coverage and CI/CD. Comfortable collaborating across product, design, and mobile teams, he brings an empathic, communication-first approach to Agile delivery. A multilingual, cross-cultural developer who began his career in Latin America, he combines data-driven thinking (BigQuery, Firestore) with practical front-end craftsmanship to ship polished, user-focused web experiences.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Software Computer and Database Development, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Postgraduate, Software Computer and Database Development, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Postgraduate at Loyalist CollegeSystems Engineereing, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Systems Engineereing, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasSystems Engineereing, Information Technology, Systems Engineereing, Information Technology at University of Buenos Aires
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
metadata8
data-management7
itil7
consumption2
react2
operation2
api2
gatsby1
lazy-loading1
instagram1
rendering1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gilsantosjulian/nodejsrestapi
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:134 PRs, 137 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
gilsantosjulian/react-advanced
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:79 PRs, 149 pushes, 33 branches in 3 months
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