Roberto Santos
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Paraná, Brazil
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Top SchoolRoberto Santos is a software engineer with 11 years of experience bridging applied machine learning, geospatial systems, and research-driven software development. Currently at Microsoft, he brings a strong academic foundation—a PhD in Geography and a Masters in Applied Computing—combined with hands-on engineering roles from meteorological services to renewable-energy analytics. He has led research software teams at the University of Nottingham and implemented production modules that ingest and interpolate weather data for large-scale assets, showing a rare mix of scientific rigour and production delivery. Comfortable across backend systems, data formats like NetCDF, and web GIS clients, he excels at turning complex spatial datasets into reliable, operational services. Based in Paraná, Brazil, Roberto pairs deep domain expertise in meteorology and spatial interpolation with practical product experience at scale.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Geography, PhD, Geography at University of NottinghamBS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Federal University - Paraná (UFPR)Masters in Applied Computing, Applied Computer, Masters in Applied Computing, Applied Computer at Technological Federal University of Parana, Brazil
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (29)
carrot10
health10
health-data10
prediction-model9
weather9
django9
agriculture9
rapid9
nextjs8
stac8
sustainability8
noaa8
soil8
geospatial7
api7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
py5gol/py5gol.github.io
Mar 2015 - Oct 2022
Contributions:35 pushes in 7 years 9 months
py5gol/test-miabis
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches, 2 issues in 3 months
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