Lucas Santos

Lucas Santos

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About me

Who Am I?

I am an energic software developer based in New Zealand. I love to deal/solve problems, specially when I have to learn something to solve them. Have a interesting project/idea? Feel free to reach out.

A bit more about my background

I have experience as a Software Developer working with different stacks and programming languages following agile methods for 8 years. I am quick to understand business requirements, learn new technologies and deliver practical solutions. Besides technical skills, I am friendly, communicative and work well within a team.

In the most part of job positions I was involved with all software development cycle, from the business requirements to the deployment. One of the things that keeps me motivated it’s to learn new things, that’s why I love to read and try to be always updated with latest technologies/tools (here is how I do it). I had to learn and implement new tools in the most part of roles that I have been working on.

For the last years I have been working mainly with:

  • Business Analysis/Requirements
  • JAM Stack (Gatsby, Contentful)
  • Web Api’s Design/Development (HTTP Protocol, Security, REST, Performance)
  • FullStack Javascript/Typescript Development (Angular , React, Node, NestJs, etc).
  • SQL Databases design & development (Design Databases, Complex Queries, Performance, etc).
  • AWS Cloud Development/ Management (Serverless, ApiGateway, CloudFormation, AWS Beanstalk, AWS CodePipeline, EC2, ELB, CloudFront, S3, ElasticCache, AWS Amplify, etc).
  • CI/CD (Set up pipelines, tests, automated deployments using AWS CodePipeline, Circle CI, Bitbucket pipelines, etc)

What else I am good at?

  • Experience with software architecture/enterprise applications in different languages such as .NET and Java. (MVC, SOLID, Spring, etc)
  • SEO (Audit, Best practices, Google Tag Manager, Search Console/Analytics)
  • Short experience in native mobile development (Objective C and Java)
  • Microservices/Event driven architecture
  • Infrastructure as a code (Cloudformation & AWS CDK)
  • Design Mind Maps to validate / start new ideas.

What I have achieved so far?

  • In the first two years of my career, I have been working mainly with .NET & SQL development, I have built a web system that is being used since 2014 by a medium-size catering company to manage all of its internal processes. This work was used as my final thesis and achieved maximum score, you can find all design/solution here.
  • I have been working with complex ETL/SQL queries, Web Api development and deployment and have delivered many backend/web api’s systems using .NET, SQL which are being used by more than 500.000 users in Brazil.
  • As one of the founder developers, I worked on the conception, design and development of a brand new product called Beduka which works like a google, gathering all information about courses and universities in Brazil. We have used Java, .net, elastic search and mysql. In 2021, the product was bought by one of the biggest educational groups in Brazil.
  • In Navigate travel, I worked developing and managing all IT resources and also leading software development projects. I have been working mainly with Cloud development, Web Api and Javascript full-stack development. We have achieved many things together, as a development of a huge enterprise system using Typescript, Angular, React, Laravel, and the development of brand new websites using React and many other things. The web apps we have built together are used by over 10.000 customers around the globe to manage their trips/pay and also by all internal company to manage all the processes: from booking to HR.
  • After a long time working directly with products, I joined ghost street in 2020 as a full stack developer and have helped the agency as develop standards for devops/deployment and also delivered several digital projects/web apps.