Summary
Italo Santos is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of experience building resilient, cost-efficient infrastructure and scaling engineering organizations across Latin America. He has led platform, SRE, and mobile reliability transformations that cut costs, tripled deployment cadence, reduced incidents by up to 70%, and improved app stability and release predictability. Comfortable from low-level storage and Linux administration to architecting AI-ready, cloud-native platforms, he combines hands-on technical depth with strategic product and data-platform vision. Known as a pragmatic problem solver, he repeatedly builds teams and processes from scratch—creating SRE, security, and data platform functions that enabled new product capabilities and regulatory-scale operations. Based in São Paulo, he blends operational rigor with mentoring and cross-functional leadership to turn reliability work into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Analysis and Systems Development, Bachelor of Technology, Analysis and Systems Development at Universidade Paulista
English, Portuguese, French