Julio Santana
Director, Software Engineering at Sol Homestead LLC
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulio Santana is a seasoned software engineering leader and founder with over a decade of experience building and scaling search and relevance systems, now directing engineering at Elastic after progressive leadership roles at Workday, JumpCloud, and CA Technologies. He combines a strong technical foundation (M.S. in Computational Science & Engineering) with hands-on expertise in traditional relevance ranking, Elasticsearch mappings, and vector search to enable Generative AI and RAG use cases. Julio is passionate about shipping high-quality software that delivers customer value while mentoring engineers and cultivating teams focused on collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. As founder of Sol Homestead LLC, he brings entrepreneurial instincts to product and platform decisions, balancing strategic vision with delivery rigor. Based in the Denver area, he is known for blending deep technical problem-solving with people-first management to grow both systems and engineers.
3 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computational Science & Engineering, M.S. Computational Science & Engineering at Miami University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (12)
restful10
elasticsearch10
search-engine10
opensearch10
java10
analytics5
elasticsearch-sql4
hadoop4
odbc3
elastic3
database3
sql2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
xiaodizi/elasticsearch
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
准备学习用，看源码写文档。慢慢更新，中文注释
Contributions:4 commits in 6 days
elastic/elasticsearch
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:6 reviews, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 1 month
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
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