Marcos Eliziario Santos is a senior software engineer with over two decades of experience and a strong focus on backend, performance optimization and DevOps, currently shaping Data/AI/Ops at Presence and formerly driving reliability at Venmo. He is a pragmatic polyglot—fluent in Python, JavaScript, Java, Ruby and C#—who excels at migrating legacy systems, building asynchronous APIs and squeezing dramatic performance gains from data layers. His fintech and e-commerce background includes leading large refactors that cut multi-minute processes to seconds and architecting cloud-native, containerized deployments. A contributor to the prominent open-source project Airbyte, he has improved connector robustness and OAuth backends for real-world ETL pipelines. Comfortable as an individual contributor, tech lead or architect, he blends hands-on coding with mentoring and process improvements to raise team maturity. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he pairs a lifelong curiosity for new paradigms with a track record of delivering simple, elegant solutions for complex business problems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Economics, Bachelor Economics at UERJ
PDG - Programa de Desenvolvimento Gerencial, PDG - Programa de Desenvolvimento Gerencial at Fundação Dom Cabral
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:36 reviews, 15 commits, 26 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Marcos contributed to the Airbyte project by addressing config validation failures and refining the logging of these failures. They also worked on adding parameters to the Source Stripe connector for incremental updates, specifically introducing a lookback window. Furthermore, the user refactored the Java OAuth backend, and added support for Hubspot OAuth.
Improved Django model inheritance with automatic downcasting
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
pythonimproveddjangodjango-modelinheritance
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Marcos Eliziario Santos - Software Engineer, Sr. - Data AI Ops