Maycon Santos
Co-Founder & CTO at Netbird
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMaycon Santos is a Co-Founder and CTO with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and secure networking solutions from Berlin. He leads NetBird, an open-source WireGuard-based overlay network project, and focuses on automating repetitive tasks through IaC and DevOps practices to maximize operational velocity. Previously a Principal Infrastructure Engineer and senior infrastructure lead, he ran large migrations to AWS, drove IaC adoption with Terraform/Packer/Docker, and managed containerized and big data environments. His hands-on contributions to NetBird emphasize code quality and maintainability in core networking packages, reflecting a developer-first approach to infrastructure. Comfortable across Linux, AWS, OpenStack and CI/CD pipelines, he combines systems tuning experience with product-minded engineering. Colleagues would note his obsessive drive to make open-source services run faster and simpler in production.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PC & Networking Design with Security Windows networking, PC & Networking Design with Security Windows networking at American International CollegeNetwork administration technologist Computer networking, Network administration technologist Computer networking at Senac RJ
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (8)
maintainability10
go10
code-documentation10
wireguard9
networking8
cli7
command-line7
command-line-interface7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
netbirdio/netbird
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:142 releases, 1135 reviews, 276 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Maycon primarily focused on improving the `iface` and `signal` packages. They addressed documentation and linting issues across multiple files, suggesting a focus on code quality and maintainability. They also made changes to the `cmd` package, indicating some involvement with the application's command-line interface or overall structure. The contributions are centered on enhancing existing code rather than implementing new features.
access-controlwireguardwireguard-vpnvpnnat-traversal
netbirdio/management-integrations
Oct 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:9 reviews, 16 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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