Summary
Otávio Dos Santos is a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years building cloud-native platforms and developer tooling, currently designing high-availability infrastructure at Mercado Libre. He specializes in AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform, having created internal deployment platforms, custom Kubernetes operators, and IaC modules that enable thousands of engineers to deploy autonomously with governance and cost controls. Former tech lead at Itaú, he blends high-performance Go and reactive Kotlin services with strong DevOps practices to support transactional workloads for major payment networks. An active educator and mentor, he teaches Go and cloud engineering at Full Cycle, Rocketseat and via private coaching—his students have gone on to pass advanced AWS certifications. Based in São Paulo but open to relocating to the Netherlands or Germany, he pairs hands-on platform engineering with a clear focus on observability, automation and developer productivity.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Cidade de São Paulo
English, Portuguese, Spanish