Satana De Sant'ana
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSatana De Sant'ana is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of hands-on experience building and hardening production systems. She specializes in low-level C work, GNU/Linux migrations and performance tuning, and has driven platform-wide improvements at GitHub around observability, efficiency and security. Her practical expertise includes optimizing metric pipelines (migrating DataDog transport to UDS and fixing dropped metrics), patching libraries to surface C stack traces into higher-level languages, and debugging subtle distributed and database issues including Vitess and MySQL sharding. Previously she led full-stack government projects in Ruby on Rails, delivering clinical and civic services while mentoring junior developers. A self-taught hacker and long-time GNU/Linux user, she combines systems-level curiosity with pragmatic product delivery—and once helped her team win GitHub’s company-wide CTF.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (200)
libgit210
vim10
html10
selector10
package-manager10
nim-language10
package-management10
ruby10
ruby-client10
scale10
webassembly10
kubernetes10
git-addons10
mysql10
publisher10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pudiva/tetalirica
Jul 2017 - Oct 2024
Site da dona Teta Lirica
Contributions:67 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 3 months
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