Summary
Sergio Santiago is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale, microservices-driven systems across Java/Kotlin backends and cloud-native platforms. He has driven reliability, observability, and incident response at FREE NOW and now Avalara, routinely leading on-call rotations, postmortems, and root-cause analysis using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Elasticsearch and AWS. Comfortable both as a developer and architect, he has built CI/CD pipelines, container platforms (Docker Swarm and Kubernetes), and tooling to reduce toil and improve team productivity. His background includes leading engineering teams, designing real-time trading systems and co-founding a mobile startup, which gives him a rare blend of operational rigor and product-minded engineering. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he pairs pragmatic SRE practices with deep Java/Spring expertise to deliver reliable, cost-effective services at scale.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel em Ciência da Computação Computer Science, Bacharel em Ciência da Computação Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFU
University Exchange at Faculdade de Ciências Computer Science, University Exchange at Faculdade de Ciências Computer Science at Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese, German