Marcelo Santamaria
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Platform & Cloud Architect

Designing platforms that scale.

Building scalable cloud platforms, distributed systems, and the engineering practices that keep them reliable — Montevideo, Uruguay.

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Platform Engineering
  • Cloud Architecture
  • IoT
  • Infrastructure as Code

Platform Snapshot

Platform Engineering
10+ years
Cloud Architecture
AWS · Kubernetes
Kubernetes Platform
500+ Deployments
IoT Systems
50,000+ Devices
Infrastructure
Terraform · CI/CD
Leadership
Technical Mentoring

Selected Achievements

What the work has produced

  • Architected a multi-tenant AWS EKS platform running 500+ Kubernetes deployments across 3 availability zones.
  • Resolved a cluster-wide resource quota overcommit, right-sizing capacity allocation across 100+ namespaces.
  • Built centralized device management for 50,000+ IoT devices across a smart-city deployment.
  • Designed real-time telemetry pipelines on Kafka, AWS IoT Core, and Lambda for a live IoT platform.
  • Provided technical leadership and mentorship for platform teams at TicketSocket/Halo Media and Globant.

Architecture

Decision records

Lightweight RFCs documenting the trade-offs behind each platform decision.

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Selected Work

Case studies

Problem, constraints, decision, result — the projects behind the architecture notes.

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