Marco Santana
Sr. Software Engineer & DevOps
Intro
What I am all about.
Fullstack developer, DBA and DevOps with over two decades of software programming, database design and networks implementations. Extremely up to date with all the new stuff, but yet with that experienced eye to identify new good tech and make them work fast and productively. I like to keep learning, and my work need to be meaningful, helping people, creating an impact in the product.
Savvy on Cloud Services from all the major providers, with at least one year with each, and also working with cross-providers and multi-cloud scenarios.
Spent over six years at Microsoft Brazil where the opportunity of working with the biggest companies in my country has taken place, helping out sales team to raise revenue through technology support.
I like to consider myself as a versatile developer, using the right language for the right project, and constantly exploring new ideas and solutions.
For more than fifteen years I have been writing software for Microsoft platform, more than ten years for corporate web sites, intranet applications and mobile applications.
I am currently focusing on establishing a state of art knowledge on cloud solutions, through the integration of Google Cloud Services, Amazon Web Services, Softlayer and Azure with frameworks well accepted by the market such as .NET Framework with SQL and Oracle, MEAN Stack, PHP with mySql, Wordpress and others. You give me a technology to work with, you see your investments return with profits graciously.
Expertise
Meaningul resilience.
01
Software Development
Throughout these over 20 years of experience, making software while following tendencies and technology evolution becomes more of a business than only writing code. The beautiful art of reinventing myself has turned out to me to be my most highlighted skill, being followed closely by a keen eye to be aware very beforehand of what is going to happen to a software architecturally speaking.
02
Software Architecture
Put a developer team to work together with a mission but without an architectural pragmatic approach and all those brilliant ideas will probably become a mess with either hyper choices or lazy approaches. Let alone the lack of quality or overzealous code. Architecture is the computer science of putting the best technology at work to those requirements a project needs in order for being delivered to the customer with full satisfaction and user astonishment.
03
JavaScript
I am a little bias to talk about my JavaScript skills. That's because this is the language I am truly in love with, at the very passion phase. I have been writing code with just about anything, but few technologies and languages I could see as the ones to make technology to jump an era or two and become a true milestone to mankind's evolution. I love ES6, I don't like TypeScript so much, but I know it fairly well, of course, I stick with ES6 all the way. AngularJS, Angular, Vue.js, and jQuery are all front-end frameworks that I deal very well with. Node.JS is my living room.
04
Databases
Databases are probably the first thing I had contact with, yet when I was still a child. I learned dBase and Cobol data structures, then SQL Server when it was still a beta spin-off from Sybase and I have been with it since then. I have worked extensively with Oracle, MySql and in the last few years, I have given NO-SQL technologies all the attention they deserve. Mongo DB has become my favorite prototyping choice. Mixing both relational and non-relational is not only fun but also a need in most projects we see nowadays.
05
.NET
Windows Forms, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API and .NET Core: Yes, I have done it all. I am working with .Net since its Beta 3, being able to foresee all its strengths and weaknesses throughout their almost two decades of existence. Do you really need .NET and C# at your architectural design? I am the one to make it happen for you.
06
Cloud
Today cloud hosting and services is a necessity for any given project. To take advantage of every single provider at its best and avoid its pitfalls is a required need for the software engineer that takes himself seriously. I have worked extensively with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM and also a lot with shared host providers such as GoDaddy.
07
Team Work and Leadership
Last but never the least, teamwork. Afterall one cannot accomplish great things alone. I love to work with talented people. Throughout my career, I had the opportunity and honor of leading great teams of unique professionals at all stages of their careers. I also had the privilege of being lead by great leaders and I learned a lot from them. I am currently not the leader of my team, but I admire my coordinator and his skills not only as a skilled software developer but also as a humane and caring team head.
Skills
The hardest task to evaluate yourself and yet keeping the humbleness
80%
C#
90%
JavaScript
70%
Git
65%
Bash
90%
SQL Server
50%
HTML/CSS
75%
Cloud Services
30%
Hardware and IOT
Experience
Keep busy.
Mar 2018 – Present
Softplan Planejamento e Sistemas
SR. Fullstack Engineer
Florianópolis, Brazil
Help to design and write the code along with a super skilled squad team innovative solutions for the civil engineering and construction business.
We use agile, nodejs, mongo and Angular 1 to 5 to make those apps look cool and perform faster and cheaper.
May 2015 – Mar 2018
Portal Telemedicina
Lead Technical Architect
Florianópolis, Brazil
Designed architecture and developed the end-to-end of a new progressive web app based on Asp.Net Web API 2.2, EF 6, Sql Server, AngularJS, Grunt, Functional Programming and Cloud Integration, creating an internal framework and standards to agile the whole development cycle, making the work of new developers swift and easy.
Manage whatever tasks needed to keep Windows and Linux servers up, running, fast and secure on IBM's SoftLayer, Amazon's Aws, Microsoft's Azure and Google Cloud.
Giving assistance to the hiring process of new technical people by evaluation candidates resumes and public technical profiles, interviewing and supporting the on-boarding of new employees.
May 2014 – May 2015
Guru das Ondas
Architect and Developer
Laguna, Brazil
Maintenance Developer, adding new features, migrating solution from shared host to Amazon Web Services, upgrading environment to more up to date technology set, securing the application and the environment against hackers and crackers.
Technology: Node.js, MongoDB, PHP, jQuery, MySQL, Amazon AWS (EC2, RDS, S3), Ubuntu, Git, Mercurial, NGINX.
Jan 2014 – Jun 2014
Geogrid Maps
SR. Web Developer
Tubarão, Brazil
Writing code to support the migration of specific GIS features from Flash Action Script to Java Script and jQuery. Using new HTML5 features such as local storage, workers and css animation. Integrating flash application, google maps v3, jstree 3 and php through JSON and Ajax.
Oct 2010 – Mar 2014
Intersena
SR. Software Engineer, Architect and DBA
Freelance, Home Office, Brazil
Writing new features and fixing bugs whenever needed. Also responsible for improving performance through the appliance of new technology concepts as well as developing and/or rewriting complex routines and transactions.
Nov 2008 – Sep 2010
Cetil
SR. Software Architect
Florianópolis, Brazil
Project NFSe (Nota Fiscal de Serviço Eletronica - Eletronic Services Invoice)
- Architecture, Database and Class Design
- Security core design and implementation with Security Access Level
- Database implementation and maintenance
- Team technology brainstorm (for LINQ and MVC)
- Overall bugs and feature improvements maintenance
Project Clock punch
- Architecture, Database and Security Core Design and Implementation
- Overall bugs and feature improvements maintenance and creation of unit tests
- Core page design and implementation for reporting activities
Provided leadership and mentoring to team of developers
- Technical Interviews and Coaching
- Elaboration of tests
- Selected as interim acting manager during absence of manager
Apr 2008 – Jun 2008
SOCIESC
Instructor
Joinville, Brazil
Delivered a class of the Microsoft Student To Business program. This course with 200 hours took half of those hours with classes about the framework, C#, ASP.Net and ORM for SQL Server, and them with the remaining time to support the students gathered in teams of four to develop an end-to-end application. 100% of good and great feedbacks from students and professors.
Jan 2007 – Oct 2008
Imagem Tecnologia
System Analyst & Developer
Joinville, Brazil
Written Web GPS ASP.NET/Sql Server system for public bus and shuttle company in order to track their vehicles and monitor possible malfunction and/or danger situations
Used Google Maps APIs to pinpoint in real-time the vehicles, terminals, bus stops and routes
Defined deadlines and performing most project management tasks
2002 – 2004
Microsoft
Innovation Center Program Manager
São Paulo, Brazil
Identify key students for the innovation center program, prepare those students to write applications with .NET Framework 1.x and support the development of a proof pilot to leverage the technology adoption
Keep students and professors up to date with .Net best practices absorbed throughout the world
Perform business and administration tasks in the absence of a manager and keeping the satisfaction from all centers above average
Performed all the above tasks at the following centers: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Recife e Fortaleza
2001 – 2002
Microsoft
Account Technical Specialist
São Paulo, Brazil
Responsible for having a track of the whole IT department at all accounts I was assigned to
Raise sales opportunities through technology assessment
Engage partners at sales support
Bridge the communication between support (Las Colinas) and technical team at assigned accounts
Fix bugs, apply patches, develop core functionalities for early adoption programs and assist development team to report issues, deploy and test beta versions
1999 – 2001
Microsoft
Applications Engineer
São Paulo, Brazil
Course material development in order to evangelize Microsoft Partners Channel related to distributed and workflow systems and smart cards automation
Studied and supported Microsoft Partners Channel at LOB Applications Development. Those applications were widely used at the knowledge management, business intelligence, ERP and e-commerce horizontal markets and at the retail, industry, government, manufacturing, education and financial vertical markets. I also had the opportunity of writing applications with Microsoft Visual Studio and BackOffice servers such as Exchange 2000, SQL 2000/7.0, Active Directory, Site Server and others
1998 – 1999
Microsoft
Seminar Group Member
São Paulo, Brazil
Development of scenarios, strategies, briefings and workshops for Tools, Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence
Accomplishment of several seminars in meetings, talks, events and congresses about Microsoft Technology throughout national territory
Education
Serious advocate of home self-taught learning new skills
2018 – Present
Self Teaching IOT Technologies
IOT and Arduino Practioner
Brazil
I have been self teaching me the arts of IOT and Industry 4.0 in order to understand how this business works and also to acquire knowledge to be applied at my day-by-day tech work
2012 – Present
Self Teaching Non-Microsoft OS's and Technologies
Linux and OSx Node.js, HTML 5 and CSS3
Brazil
After a life long of Microsoft Technologies and Microsoft employment I have decided that I needed a radical shift in my technological approaches, and therefore started to take on open source knowledge and usage. From dropping a Windows machine to deliberately avoiding everything Microsoft has their hands on I was able since then to become a very skilled professional in open-source technologies
1993 – 1995
FECAP - Fundação Escola e Comércio Álvares Penteado
Data Processing and Data Processing Technology
São Paulo, Brazil
I always knew what I wanted to do in my life in terms of professional choices. When I was thirteen I had my first contact with a software language (Basic) and then, by the age of fifteen I started this three years technical course in order to get an academic certificate in writing code and managing databases.
Profiles
Busy as usual.
Recommendations
People that loved working with me and I can call friends
Claudio Fernando Maciel
CTO at Brokerme
Marco Santana is a skilled professional, full of surprises when it comes down to bringing up inovative solutions for a hefty array of situations within the IT context.
Very easy going person, everyone in the team wil get along with him as soon as one meets him.
Rob Ranches
BI Architect / Data Scientist at Bausch Health
Marco is one of the key figures in developing IT evangelism throughout Brasil, learn fast and is a very dedicated person.
As a developer is a keen guy and it's always ready to help the others.
Jean Paulo da Silva Ramos
CEO Ecovilas - Cabo Frio
Marco is the type of professional you MUST HAVE in your organization, is a kind of professional we met during our career and we want to stay in touch, is one of the best professionals I ever worked with.
Extremely oriented to achieve the goals and always available to support others teams.
His personal values and professional commitments are impressive. In addition to his deep technical knowledge, which needs no further comments, he has a clear vision of users needs.