Jose Santiago

Hey, there! I'm a Site Reliability Engineer with almost 20 years of experience, working across full-stack web, mobile, and ML infrastructure.

 
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Get to know me

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I started my career working with digital agencies around New Jersey and New York for 10 years on projects involving major pharmaceutical companies, local municipal governments, education, medical equipment manufacturers, the US military, and blockchain technology start-ups. After leaving client services, I spent a few years working as a Director of Software Engineering for a mid-size company in Lower Manhattan, developing the interface, content delivery systems, and reporting tools for an artificial intelligence product in the marketing space. Since then I moved on to Google as a Site Reliability Engineering Manager, focusing on the reliability, simplification, and scalability of Google’s internal systems for CI/CD tooling and more recently ML infrastructure.

Favorite languages, frameworks, and general tech:

  • Ruby on Rails

  • Node.js

  • Golang

  • JavaScript

  • HTML+CSS

  • PostgreSQL/MySQL

  • Redis/Memcached

  • Docker and Kubernetes

  • Microservices with JSON REST APIs

  • iOS with Objective C

  • Linux (Ubuntu preferred as my daily driver)

Resume

My skillset includes designing and implementing data-heavy and API-centric back-end services (Ruby with Rails or Sinatra, Node.js, and Golang), as well as front-end web development (HTML+CSS+JavaScript) with an understanding of the classic frameworks and libraries (Bootstrap, jQuery, Underscore, BackboneJS+Marionette), while talking to PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, or SQLite databases, with Redis or Memcached for caching, Elasticsearch for near-instant indexed lookups, and CRAN R script integration via Rserve for Data Science functions.

Click here to download my resume in PDF format.

Experience Overview

Google
Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Oct 2020 to Dec 2022 (CI/CD Tooling)
Jan 2023 to Present (ML Inference Infra)

Persado
Director of Engineering, Services
Jan 2016 to Oct 2018

IMP Digital Studios
Lead Interactive Developer
Jul 2012 to Dec 2014

Binary Development
LLC for Freelance work
Mar 2010 - 2019

Persado
Director of Engineering, Architecture
Jul 2019 to Oct 2020

Negotiatus
Director of Engineering
Oct 2018 to Jul 2019

Persado
Senior Software Engineer
Dec 2014 to Dec 2015

Thingee Digital
Senior Web and iOS Developer
Nov 2009 to Jul 2012

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Testimonials

Jose is a leader invested in the success of his team. He is a natural coach and mentor who continuously seeks for opportunities to learn and grow his team. He is definitely a player-coach type of leader who isn’t afraid of rolling up his sleeves to the job done. If you are looking for a technology leader who can rally the team, to get complex things done and have fun in the process; Jose is your guy.
— Melissa Bruno, SPHR, Talent & HR Leader
I have known Jose for years. He was the lead iOS and Web Developer at Thingee Digital where we worked together for 2 years. I have also worked with him on freelance projects for his own company Binary Development. Our careers have moved us in different directions but he will always be a great friend of mine. Jose is the best developer I have had the pleasure of working with in my career. He is extremely hard-working, reliable, and very easy to communicate with. He not only writes the most organized and optimized code, but he can also work with and teach his team members. The skills that I have learned from Jose I use daily in my current job and I am positive I will continue to use them for the rest of my career. What I always admired about Jose is that he strives and enjoys the most challenging work that most people would avoid. He never backs down and will hit any deadline because of his amazing work ethic. Jose would be an invaluable asset to any team. He has my highest recommendation.
— Gene Demo, Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead at FuboTV