Nicolas Santa
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder at Pampa Start
Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina
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Top SchoolNicolas Santa is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 16+ years building scalable web and serverless systems from Argentina. As CTO of Tracestory he defines technical strategy and leads a distributed engineering team while maintaining hands-on ownership of architecture, security, and scalability. He has a strong track record delivering high-performance backends and data workflows—at CompanyCam he boosted PostgreSQL query performance by 95% and designed image-processing pipelines that handled 1.5M images/day. Comfortable across Elixir, Ruby, Python and JS, he blends domain-driven design and hexagonal patterns with practical engineering to simplify complex codebases. A longtime freelancer and advisor, he pairs startup grit with investor-facing perspective through private collaborations at Pampa Start. Based in Río Cuarto, he quietly combines deep systems expertise with a knack for turning performance bottlenecks into growth levers.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional de Río CuartoBachelor's degree, Accounting and Finance, Bachelor's degree, Accounting and Finance at Fray Mamerto Esquiu
English, French
Github Skills (33)
facebook-open-graph10
lambda9
database9
rubyonjets9
rust8
ai8
aws8
ruby8
compile-time7
async7
rust-lang7
convolutional-neural-networks7
serverless7
sql6
sqlalchemy6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nsanta/fbgraph
May 2010 - Jul 2014
Facebook Open Graph API in Ruby
Contributions:120 commits in 4 years 2 months
facebook-open-graphruby
nsanta/jets
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
Ruby Serverless Framework
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
serverlessaws-lambdaserverless-rubyrubyaws
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