Summary
Todd Santo is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building products and teams across startups and large tech firms in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently at Google, he combines hands-on engineering with leadership skills honed as Director of Engineering at Beautiful.ai and Tech Lead roles at Uber and NeonMob. He’s fluent across stacks—front-end frameworks, backend services, cloud platforms, and real-time systems—and has shipped features affecting high-volume signup flows and productivity tooling. Todd has co-founded product startups and played multi-disciplinary roles from 3D artist to engineering lead, which gives him a practical, design-minded approach to engineering problems. Colleagues know him for mentoring engineers and for small cultural touches (like inventing chatrooms for boba runs) that help teams collaborate. He’s based in San Francisco and brings entrepreneurial grit, cross-functional fluency, and a track record of turning prototypes into production systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Comercial Art/Computer Science, Comercial Art/Computer Science at Moorpark College