Santiago Giraldo
Software Engineer at Redpanda Data
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Giraldo is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native products and data-driven dashboards from Madrid. Currently at Redpanda Data, he focuses on front-end engineering—shipping React and TypeScript improvements for the Redpanda Console, including integrating the Monaco editor for advanced topic filtering and navigation. Previously he led backend development at Transparent Intelligence, delivering a B2B aggregation product used by 180+ companies and a geolocation-based dashboard that drove continuous customer leads. Comfortable across the stack, he combines UX-minded front-end work with durable backend systems and a pragmatic approach to refactoring, dependency management, and linting hygiene. An engineer who bridges product and developer tooling, he brings startup grit and a track record of making complex streaming data more accessible to users.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Electronico, Ingeniería eléctrica y electrónica, Carrera incompleta, Ingeniero Electronico, Ingeniería eléctrica y electrónica, Carrera incompleta at Universidad de Antioquía
Github Skills (11)
webui10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
monaco-editor10
typescript-types10
ui-design9
apache-kafka4
kafka4
go4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/console
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Redpanda Console is a developer-friendly UI for managing your Kafka/Redpanda workloads. Console gives you a simple, interactive approach for gaining visibility into your topics, masking data, managing consumer groups, and exploring real-time data with time-travel debugging.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:90 reviews, 51 commits, 100 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Santiago primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Redpanda Console, focusing on UI/UX improvements and feature implementation. They refactored code for consistent styling and added new components using React and TypeScript. A significant portion of their work involved integrating and configuring the Monaco editor for topic filtering and navigation updates related to the embedded application. Additionally, they addressed dependency issues and linting warnings.
real-time-datareal-timegroupsapache-kafkaworkloads
sago2k8/console
Jun 2022 - Sep 2024
Redpanda Console is a developer-friendly UI for managing your Kafka/Redpanda workloads. Console gives you a simple, interactive approach for gaining visibility into your topics, masking data, managing consumer groups, and exploring real-time data with time-travel debugging.
Contributions:181 pushes, 35 branches in 2 years 3 months
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