Summary
Marco Dos Santos is an engineering manager and founding software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput payment systems and AI-native platforms that scale to millions of users and billions of tokens. He has led end-to-end product and infrastructure efforts—architecting payment flows that handled $100M daily at Sphere and building multi-agent AI coaching systems at Titan with an 87% retention rate. Skilled across the TypeScript/React/Node.js stack and modern AI tooling (OpenAI, Anthropic, Supabase), he repeatedly takes companies from zero to production while prioritizing test-driven, reliable releases. Marco has a rare blend of hands-on engineering and hiring rigor, having conducted 1,300+ technical interviews and mentored interviewers to standardize hiring across 50+ roles. His background in production engineering and aeronautics informs a systems-minded approach to product design and operational resilience. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he enjoys tackling cross-disciplinary problems that connect hardware-level thinking with cutting-edge AI software.
11 years of coding experience