Julio Santana
Senior Backend Engineer at Kahoot!
Málaga, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolJulio Santana is a Senior Backend Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and delivering robust server-side systems across education, insurance, and play-focused product companies. Currently at Kahoot! after a long tenure at The Workshop, he brings deep Java/J2EE expertise plus practical knowledge of databases, messaging, and web services accumulated in enterprise-grade projects. He pairs strong computer science foundations—POO, algorithms, design patterns, language processors and graphics—with a track record of defining architectures and leading complex implementations. Comfortable across the full backend stack, Julio has repeatedly moved between greenfield architecture and legacy modernization, often owning both design and hands-on development. A self-learner and team player based in Málaga, he also has research experience in NLP and semantic web feature extraction, reflecting an appetite for applied research that informs production systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciado, Ciencias de la computacion, Licenciado, Ciencias de la computacion at Universidad de la HabanaUniversitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante
Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (69)
cloud-native10
reactive10
kubernetes10
java10
quarkus10
babel-loader9
consumer-driven-contracts9
plugin9
webpack-plugin9
checker9
fingerprint8
fingerprinting8
testing8
spring-boot8
ts-loader8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jesantana/dictionaryProcess
Aug 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 year 1 month
jesantana/hackerranksolutions
Oct 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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