Santiago Gonzalez
Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Medallia, Inc.
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Gonzalez is a Sr. Principal Software Engineer with 16 years building high-performance, distributed search and OLAP systems, currently driving core infrastructure at Medallia in Buenos Aires. He combines deep Java and object-oriented design expertise with a competitive algorithms background, enabling fast, clean implementations of complex systems. His career includes architecting multi-tenant search-as-a-service at LinkedIn and designing storage and scaling layers for cloud search at IndexTank/Flaptor. Hands-on experience with real-time searchable databases is evidenced by contributions to the Sensei-based LinkedInAttic/sensei project, where he improved broker APIs, error handling and performance tooling. Comfortable across the stack, he often focuses on recoverability and operational performance—practical strengths not obvious from titles alone.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc + MSc, Computer Science, BSc + MSc, Computer Science at Universidad de Buenos AiresColegio Nacional de Buenos AiresMSc, Mathematics, MSc, Mathematics at University of Buenos Aires
Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
javas10
json10
databases10
distributed-systems10
back-end-development10
java10
database10
servlet10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
performance-tuning8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LinkedInAttic/sensei
Feb 2012 - May 2013
distributed realtime searchable database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Santiago primarily contributed to the backend logic and API of the distributed real-time searchable database. Their work included adding JSONP support to the broker API, modifying the error handling in the servlet, and implementing performance debugging for the broker. They also exposed Sensei broker and cluster services through a servlet context attribute and added Javadoc documentation for the export.
realtimedatabasesearchabledistributed
santip/resize-panes
Apr 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
atom-packageatomresizing
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