Paula Santamaría is a Software Architect with nine years of hands-on experience building and leading engineering teams across startups and consulting firms from Argentina. She combines deep backend and architecture expertise—having designed microservices, internal frameworks, and scalable APIs—with product-minded decision making, currently shaping technical strategy for Serenity* AIHub. A former co-founder of Uppernauts, she has delivered production systems used daily since 2017 and shipped consumer apps like Get Rid of It that gained media attention and 20,000+ downloads. Paula writes and teaches through projects like the TypeScript Gamified e-book and won a GitHub Actions Hackathon with a game prototype, reflecting a playful, practical approach to learning. She balances technical leadership, code reviews, and developer workflow optimization while keeping product, security, and performance considerations front and center. Outside work she’s a gamer, digital artist and guitarist, often sketching or walking her dog between design sessions.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Degree, Computer Engineering, Computer Science Degree, Computer Engineering at UNLA (National University of Lanus)
IT Management Degree, Computer Engineering, IT Management Degree, Computer Engineering at UADE (Argentine University of Enterprise)
Contributions:87 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 months
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Paula Santamaría - Software Architect at Serenity Star