Lucas Santos is a senior full-stack engineer and co-founder who brings 11 years of hands-on experience architecting cloud-native, serverless, and headless solutions across NZ, Australia, UK, Brazil and the USA. As Technical Director at DuskyDots he combines product-minded leadership with deep expertise in AWS architecture, DevOps automation, and modern frontends (React/Next.js/TypeScript) to ship interactive, award-winning digital experiences. His background spans startups and agencies where he built booking systems, headless e‑commerce, real‑time interactive apps and platform-grade infrastructure that scale to thousands of users. Lucas is comfortable from low-level database and API design to CI/CD pipelines and cloud security, and he frequently translates client business goals into pragmatic technical standards. He holds formal training in React and data science and has a proven track record of turning rapid prototypes into production products and acquisitions. Notably, he combines Brazilian engineering roots with Kiwi entrepreneurship, enabling a global delivery mindset grounded in practical cross-cultural collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Nanodegree Data Science, Data Science Nanodegree Data Science at Udacity
Information Systems Information Systems / Software Engineering, Information Systems Information Systems / Software Engineering at UFOP - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
How to build multiple web apps using the same layout, pages, components, services, graphql but changing specific things such as colors, images, styles, images, data, etc. This is possible and easy to achieve, thanks to gatsby-theme
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Lucas Santos - Co-Founder Technical Director At DuskyDots