Summary
Romulo Santos is a Principal Engineer in Application Security with 11 years of experience building and hardening distributed, cloud-native backends. He currently architects and operates microservices on Google Cloud Platform using Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC and observability stacks like Prometheus and Grafana, blending Java and Go in production. His career includes multiple senior engineering and security roles at The New York Times and a stint at Mux, demonstrating an ability to move between product engineering and security leadership. He began as a developer and instructor, which informs his pragmatic approach to mentoring and translating complex security requirements into maintainable architectures. Romulo’s background as an independent consultant and Java instructor gives him uncommon depth in both system design and developer enablement. Based in the United States, he combines hands-on implementation with enterprise-scale security stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate, Management Information Systems, Graduate Certificate, Management Information Systems at Universidade Federal Fluminense
Associate's degree, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Associate's degree, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
English, Portuguese