Santiago Coffey
Lead Software Engineer at Disney Streaming
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSantiago Coffey is a Lead Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 14+ years building scalable, revenue-impacting systems across entertainment, healthcare, and consumer web. He currently leads e-commerce platform development for Disney Streaming, overseeing services that support the industry’s largest subscriber base. Santiago has a strong track record of driving performance and cost savings—optimizing logging and search to cut costs and latency, migrating critical infrastructure to Google Cloud, and containerizing monoliths to boost developer productivity. He combines hands-on backend engineering with technical leadership, having led small teams, established 24/7 incident response, and improved release velocity by 5x. Comfortable across the stack, he’s delivered both high-throughput game backends and patient-facing healthcare workflows that materially improved revenue processes. A pragmatic tinkerer, he also has roots in robotics and early large-scale photo systems, reflecting a long-standing focus on robust, scalable architectures.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
International Bachelor, International Bachelor at Colegio Santa BrígidaBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (19)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
scoffey/elegilegi
Jun 2013 - Jan 2021
Contributions:129 commits, 35 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years 8 months
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scoffey/coursera
Jan 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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