Nielson Santana
Software Engineer
Pernambuco, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolNielson Santana is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building web and cloud-native systems, particularly in healthcare and diagnostics. He combines strong Python and Django background with hands-on SRE/DevOps expertise—designing Kubernetes infrastructures, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and multi-cloud migrations between AWS and GCP. At tembici he moved a monolith to microservices, improved uptime and deployment velocity, and created a unified Terraform repo and Helm charts to standardize deployments. He co-founded a text-to-audio startup and led production platforms at Genomika that handled sensitive genetic testing workflows, demonstrating both product and compliance awareness. Holding a Master’s in Applied Computation from UFRPE, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic engineering and an appetite for open-source tooling.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Informática Aplicada, Master's degree, Informática Aplicada at Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
2,012reputation
13.5mreached
21answers
2questions
linux
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bash
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
heroku10
window-manager10
python-scripts10
django10
api10
rest10
json10
logentries10
environment-variables10
dokku10
cookie10
buildpack10
docker10
async9
linux9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
guamum/pytfe
Mar 2021 - Sep 2023
Yet anothe python wrapper to write terraform
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
nielsonsantana/django-getpaid
Sep 2015 - May 2020
Django payments processor.
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches, 2 tags in 4 years 8 months
djangopaymentsdjango-projectdjango-framework
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