Summary
Santiago Hernandez is a Platform Architect with seven years of experience building and securing cloud-native infrastructure across fintech and delivery platforms, currently shaping platform strategy at dLocal in Madrid. He blends hands-on engineering and developer productivity leadership, having progressed from DevOps and cloud engineering roles to Head of Cloud at Strike.sh and now architect-level responsibilities. Santiago pairs a pragmatic security mindset—rooted in ethical hacking experience at HackerOne and Strike.sh—with a strong ops background, famously noting that "there is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer." He focuses on scalable, observable platforms that accelerate developer velocity and reliability in high-throughput environments. Educated in systems engineering and programming in Uruguay, he brings a cross-functional fluency between software configuration, cloud operations, and developer tooling. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who turns security insight into resilient infrastructure design.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieria En Sistemas, Ingenieria En Sistemas at Universidad ORT Uruguay
Ingenieria en Sistemas, Ingeniería de software, Ingenieria en Sistemas, Ingeniería de software at Universidad de la República
Analista Programador, Analista Programador at Instituto Tecnológico CTC
English, Spanish, Italian