Miguel Dos Santos
Staff Platform Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Dos Santos is a Staff Platform Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms across AWS and Kubernetes. He combines deep practical skills in Golang and Python with platform expertise—bootstrapping clusters, observability, GitOps, and cluster reliability—to help teams move fast and stay stable. His background spans payments, retail, and startup environments where he led platform strategy, roadmaps, and cross-team orchestration while mentoring engineers. He contributes to open-source tooling (e.g., Mesos Marathon Python client and a widely used Kubernetes configmap-reload utility), with a particular focus on reliability, metrics, and multi-arch builds. Known for pragmatic technical leadership, he pairs low-level troubleshooting (networking, on-prem integrations) with platform-wide automation and cost/ IAM best practices. He holds engineering degrees from Brazilian universities and brings a rare blend of systems-level curiosity and production-grade platform delivery.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Universidade Veiga de AlmeidaBachelor's degree, Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Systems Engineering at Universidade Cândido Mendes
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
python10
webhooks10
pep10
p810
go10
kubernetes-pods10
metric9
docker8
rest-api8
dockers8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
automation7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
jimmidyson/configmap-reload
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Simple binary to trigger a reload when a Kubernetes ConfigMap is updated
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to improving the reliability and functionality of the `configmap-reload` tool. They implemented a retry mechanism for webhook requests, including adding logging and metrics to track successes and failures. Furthermore, they fixed a bug related to the retry logic and ensured proper metrics were emitted when retries were exhausted. The user also made adjustments to the Go module and dependencies to ensure multiarch build support.
configmapkubernetes
thefactory/marathon-python
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Python client library for Mesos Marathon's REST API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily focused on code cleanup and adherence to style guidelines within the `marathon/client.py` file. Their contributions involved applying PEP8 fixes, which improved code readability and consistency. Additionally, they performed minor code cleanup tasks, suggesting a focus on code quality and maintainability within the Python client library for the Marathon REST API. These actions ensure that the code follows established coding standards.
mesospythonrestrest-api
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