Santiago Gutierrez
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Gutierrez is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with 10 years of experience building backend distributed systems, test automation, and embedded software across industries from telecommunications to medical coding. He is fluent in Python, Java/Scala, and object-oriented design, and has a track record of integrating Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, and SQL-backed services in production microservice environments. Santiago has moved between hands-on roles—authoring automated test frameworks for wireless and audio systems, developing VM management tooling with KVM and Ansible, and improving Scala-based medical coding services—demonstrating versatility across low-level systems and high-level data processing. Currently at Capital One after recent stints at ASML and Apixio, he pairs strong engineering fundamentals from UIUC with practical experience shipping resilient services. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation and data-driven validation flows that reduce manual testing overhead, an often-understated strength that shows up across his embedded and backend work.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
trend4
react3
nextjs2
typescript2
javascript2
css1
Github contributions (5)
Santi132/Dotfiles
Sep 2016 - Jan 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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