Marc Santiago
Chief Technology Officer at Nimbus
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolMarc Santiago is a Chief Technology Officer and cofounder with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling backend systems for programmatic advertising and consumer apps. Based in Jersey City, he rose through engineering and leadership roles at Nimbus and Timehop, evolving from backend engineer to VP and now CTO while retaining a strong focus on performance and reliability. He is a pragmatic full-stack engineer who regularly manages cloud infrastructure (AWS/Ubuntu) and writes production services in Go and Python. His background in biology and published research indicates an analytical, data-driven approach and an unusual ability to bridge scientific rigor with software engineering. Known for shipping operations-ready systems and automating data flows, he brings both startup grit and institutional engineering practices to growing companies.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biology and Philosophy, Bachelor's degree, Biology and Philosophy at Susquehanna University
English
Stackoverflow
3,652reputation
480kreached
139answers
42questions
go
top-5%
Github Skills (121)
http10
structured-logging10
openrtb10
stream-processing10
job-scheduling10
memory-allocation10
encoder10
golang10
json10
go10
decoder10
tableplus10
logging10
json-encoder10
linear-regression9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
marcsantiago/aws-global-cache
May 2021 - Feb 2026
A wrapper for interacting with the AWS global cache
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
aws
adsbynimbus/ads
Jan 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:20 reviews, 203 PRs, 166 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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