Santiago Arango is a Solutions Architect with 8 years of hands-on experience designing production-grade, event-driven architectures and DevSecOps workflows on AWS, now working at AWS after leading cloud initiatives at EPAM. He architects scalable, idempotent serverless and multi-account solutions for high-stakes financial and enterprise environments, combining CDK, Terraform, and robust CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments across hundreds of accounts. Santiago blends deep systems know-how—Linux, Bash, Docker, Kubernetes, and networking—with application-level skills in Python, TypeScript, FastAPI and React to deliver end-to-end solutions. An active community leader and educator, he serves as an AWS Community Builder and Medellín AWS User Group leader and publishes technical content on YouTube and open-source projects on GitHub. His background in mechatronics and ongoing MS in Cybersecurity give him a practical edge in IoT, robotics, and security-minded cloud design. Colleagues know him for turning complex compliance and resilience requirements into reusable IaC patterns that accelerate team delivery.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity at IMF Smart Education
Bachelor's degree STEM focus, Bachelor's degree STEM focus at Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola
Mechatronics Engineering Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Escuela de Ingeniería de Antioquia
Some of my IoT projects | Programmed servers in NodeJS + Express | Programmed microcontrollers in C and Arduino | ESP8266 as WiFi module.
Contributions:107 commits, 10 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 year 1 month
esp8266-arduinonode-rediot-projectsexpressesp8266
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