Summary
Santiago Leira is a Staff Software Engineer based in Buenos Aires with a decade of experience building high-throughput backend systems and data pipelines for products that process massive event volumes. He specializes in Golang and Python, architecting robust, observable services on Kubernetes that integrate with Kafka, ClickHouse/Cassandra, and observability stacks like Grafana and OpenTelemetry. Santiago has led engineering and ads-monetization teams at Wildlife Studios, delivering APIs handling tens of thousands of requests per minute and reliable pipelines for revenue metrics. At Embrace he focuses on symbolication, SDK data ingestion, and seamless third-party exports, emphasizing quality, scalability and operational excellence. Known for combining hands-on coding with team coaching and cross-functional coordination, he also brings a background in SRE and teaching programming paradigms that informs his pragmatic approach to reliability and mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Instituto Evang茅lico Americano
Information Systems Engineer, Computer Engineering, Information Systems Engineer, Computer Engineering at Universidad Tecnol贸gica Nacional
English, Portuguese, Spanish