Thiago Santos

São Paulo, Brazil

tgbateria@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/thiago-santos-software-engineer

Summary
I am passionate and enthusiastic about technology, and I advocate that it is one of the most effective ways of
bringing about a more prosperous and just society for all.
In my career, I daily connect with people all around the world, working on the core of some of the most advanced
technologies in software and other related technologies.
I enjoy having international outreach, and I'm proactively working each day to advance my knowledge baggage in
the software and technology industries in general.

Experience
Software Engineer II 62
Microsoft
Sep 2022 - Present (1 year 2 months)
Working in the core development of highly confidential Microsoft intelligent systems for all of Office 365,
Cortana and Search products. Main service owner of a E2E testing platform for all things Cortana.

Software Development Engineer 2

Amazon
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022 (1 year 7 months)
Working in the design and implementation of new user experiences on the Amazon websites, in the
front and back-end using technologies such as Java, python, React, JavaScript, GraphQl, Amazon API
and others.
Designing and implementing solutions in the business logic of various systems in the back-end to
address new regulatory changes, to enable new functionality, or to scale service capacity using
technologies such as DynamoDb, AWS step Functions-like services, Jenkins-like services and others.
Working in the operational excellence with methodologies such as continuous deployment, continuous
testing and monitoring.
Constantly going from 0-100 in new technologies, while maintaining quality and time-to-market on
delivered solutions.

Software Engineer II
Cadence Design Systems
Aug 2019 - Feb 2021 (1 year 7 months)
Worked with C, C++, and TCL (scripting and C-level API) software development. Delivered
continuously, single-handedly, company-wide unified software solution in the first layer of data
processing, abstraction, and modeling for Low-Power. Handing over API-ready information for various
types of software for Low-Power electronic design company-wide.

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Worked regularly with IEEE representatives to define company-wide long term software architecture for
Low-Power electronic design.

Software Engineer I
Cadence Design Systems
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019 (1 year 8 months)
Worked with C, C++, and TCL software development on a daily basis, providing customer-critical
solutions for the industry-wide most used software tools for Low-Power electronic design.

Software Engineer Intern

Cadence Design Systems
Dec 2015 - Nov 2017 (2 years)
Worked in the implementation of UPF-related capabilities in the worldwide most used LowPower
electronic design software.
Worked fixing issues in already implemented UPF-related capabilities of the software.

System Software Developer for Drone Application

Florida International University: Applied Research Center
May 2015 - Aug 2015 (4 months)
Worked in the software development end, as part of a research team, focused on the use of USRPs
embedded in unmanned aerial vehicles to locate cellular signal sources.
The research had the goal of using such technologies to triangulate people lost in areas with difficult
access.

Electronic Technician
Jabil
May 2013 - Aug 2013 (4 months)
Worked with the maintenance of test fixtures in the production line.

Worked creating software to automate test fixtures for the test of electronic boards from the production
line.

Industrial Specialist
SENAI FIEMG
Oct 2009 - May 2012 (2 years 8 months)
Worked as teacher in the technical and apprenticeship courses in SENAI, teaching students on subjects
such as electrical circuits, electronics, pneumatics, and technical drawing.
Developed much of the internal didactic material for such courses.

Institutional Competitor
SENAI FIEMG
Dec 2008 - Sep 2009 (10 months)

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 Worked as an institutional competitor. For the professional competition Knowledge Olympics, extended
internationally as WorldSkills.

Technical Apprentice
Color Textil
Mar 2008 - Dec 2008 (10 months)
Worked as a technical apprentice in industrial applications, mainly electronics and mechanics.
During this period I had a grant from Color Textil in order for me to learn these disciplines in SENAI and
apply them later at Color Textil.
After the apprenticeship period, SENAI decided to hire me instead, to initially compete for then in the
WorldSkills (1 year without formal employment attachment), and later to teach students in the same
disciplines (with employment attachment), while also expanding my practical knowledge.

Education
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Control And Automation Engineering
2011 - 2017
After one year into college, started working as a junior project consultor, on project management, for
the in-college company for electrical engineering. This company took on real-life projects with real
costumers but under teachers' continuous supervision.
1 year later, aggregated the role of technical consultor, in the development of technical projects.
6 months later, lastly, shortly moved to the CTO role, before leaving the in-college company due to an
internship offer.

PUC Minas
Specialization, Computer Software Engineering
2019 - 2021

Tennessee Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2014 - 2015
Sandwich degree exchange program in the USA. Engaged in many computer science-related
disciplines.

Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais

Associate's degree, Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician
2011 - 2013

Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial

Associate's degree, Plastics and Polymer Engineering Technology/Technician
2008 - 2009

Skills

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Azure DevOps • Azure Key Vault • ASP.NET • .NET Framework • C# • SQL • Microsoft SQL
Server • Microsoft Azure • Kusto Query Language (KQL) • Operational Excellence

Honors & Awards

Champion of the Knowledge Olympics, 2009 Edition Nation-Wide - Serviço
National de Aprendizagem Industrial
Sep 2009
Won nation-wide for industrial polymer processing category in the competition.

Champion of the Knowledge Olympics, 2009 Edition State-Wide - Serviço National

de Aprendizagem Industrial
Jul 2009
Won state-wide for industrial polymer processing category in the competition.

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