Santiago Diaz
Technical Product Manager at Google via Qualitest Group
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Diaz is a Technical Product Manager and engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, secure products at the intersection of data, NLP, and user experience. He led election-related features at Google that reached over 1 billion users and cut launch cycles by 75% through automation and tooling, and previously improved NLU and internationalization workflows as a Technical Solutions Consultant. As founder of Lang2views he turned a localization idea into a $170–230K annual business powering hundreds of millions of YouTube views, demonstrating both product-market instincts and hands-on platform development. Santiago pairs practical coding skills (Python, APIs, SQL, CI/CD) and security-minded contributions to major open-source Java frameworks like Apache Struts and Wicket with strong cross-functional leadership. He thrives on reducing operational friction, aligning engineering and non-technical stakeholders, and shipping measurable impact at global scale.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial and Systems engineering - Operations Reseach, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial and Systems engineering - Operations Reseach at Binghamton University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
javas10
http-header10
web-framework10
web-security10
struts10
wicket10
java10
testing10
logging8
html8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apache/struts
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Apache Struts is a free, open-source, MVC framework for creating elegant, modern Java web applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Santiago's contributions centered around enhancing the Struts framework's security and functionality, specifically focusing on Fetch Metadata integration. They implemented the Fetch Metadata interceptor, added Vary headers, and addressed cross-origin request handling. Furthermore, they refactored code, renamed classes, and added logging for improved debugging. The user also contributed by adding unit tests for the new security features.
javaweb-frameworkapachestruts
apache/wicket
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Apache Wicket - Component-based Java web framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 15 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Santiago focused on implementing and refactoring CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) protection within the Apache Wicket framework. Their contributions include adding a new Fetch Metadata request listener, making the existing CSRF prevention listener configurable and extendable, and modifying the behavior of existing CSRF protections based on HTTP headers. The user's changes involved modifying the `CsrfPreventionRequestCycleListener` to be compatible with modern web security standards and legacy browsers.
component-basedjava-webdatabase-accessapache-wicketframework
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