• Mr. Santos has participated in the design and development of high volume and mission critical systems, like GTE’s phone billing and pricing subsystems (a non-stop, quasi real time, country wide transactions processing application) and Katrina’s refugee list for CNN, to name a few.
• His career focus has been in creating quality and re-usable design artifacts using the latest tools and design patterns: From multi-tiers solutions, to enterprise wide exception handling, to transactions monitoring and logging. Several using non-intrusive declarative programming, database driven business rules injection, and aspect oriented design principles.
• Mr. Santos also has showed interest in many aspects of the development cycle. He created many products and procedures to expedite/automate version management and deployment, embedding unit tests and automating regression, load and stress tests, for instance. He has been awarded for some of these products and many were adopted enterprise wide in campuses with hundred of developers
• Always ahead of the curve, experimenting and assessing the latest beta products and development tools and models. He has been a strong advocate, first adopter and/or head designer of solutions using code generators, AJAX, Virtualization, Service Oriented design architecture and semi-formal design, coding and testing tools, for instance.
• His first years as a performance and capacity planning engineer also equipped him with the insight and tools to anticipate and detect scalability issues before hand. His exposure to micro-companies’ to Fortune 100’s systems allows him to determine a solution suitable to the magnitude of the problem within budget constraints.
• In addition, Mr. Santos holds some of the highest scores on .NET (top 20) and SQL Server (top 10) certification tests among thousands of test takers in all Florida. These are public transcripts that can be independently verified at www.Brainbench.com.