Santiago Palenque
Engineering Manager at Firstleaf
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Palenque is an engineering manager and seasoned full-stack engineer with 11 years building developer tools and scalable web platforms, currently leading remote cross-functional teams at Firstleaf. He combines hands-on experience—from .NET and PHP to modern web stacks—with a focus on optimizing CI/CD pipelines and data-informed product improvements. Based in Argentina, he is set up to work as a U.S. contractor via his LLC, enabling seamless collaboration with North American teams. His background includes senior roles at OpenStack and long-term full-stack work at Tipit Communications, reflecting deep operational experience across startups and enterprise environments. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who blends code-level fluency with people-first management to ship reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieria en Sistemas, Ingenieria en Sistemas at Universidad Abierta InteramericanaIngenieria en Informatica, Ingenieria en Informatica at Universidad de Buenos AiresBachiller Internacional, Bachiller Internacional at Colegio de Todos los Santos
Github Skills (37)
admin9
getstream9
getstream-io9
frontend8
chat-sdk8
react8
react-chat8
android-app8
stream8
foundation7
chat7
stream-chat6
sdk6
kotlin6
redux6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OpenStackweb/summit-admin
Nov 2017 - Nov 2020
Summit Admin ReactJS frontend
Contributions:426 commits, 11 PRs, 415 pushes in 3 years
reactreactjs-adminadminreactjs-frontendsummit
OpenStackweb/call-for-presentations
Jun 2018 - Mar 2022
Stand-alone App for call-for-presentations in React
Contributions:2 PRs, 68 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
reactstand-alonestandjavascriptreactjs
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