Santiago Quintero

R&D Team Leader, Platform Engineering at Corellium (a Cellebrite company)

Platform engineering lead with 5+ years of systems software experience across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and hybrid cloud/on-premises systems. I lead a three-engineer team, modernize production infrastructure, define SLOs, lead on-call, act as incident commander, and deliver AI infrastructure. Experienced in regulated environments: banking at SVB, SOC 2, and HIPAA.

Miami · LinkedIn · GitHub

Experience

R&D Team Leader, Platform Engineering

Jul 2026 – Present

Corellium (a Cellebrite company)

Details
  • Team Leadership: Lead a team of three engineers (two senior, one junior), setting the platform team’s technical direction and mentoring while staying hands-on in the code.
  • Scrum Lead: Run all Scrum ceremonies and own the backlog for the 10-person systems team.
  • Lead SRE: Serve as rotating lead SRE, defining SLOs and uptime targets for the platform and leading on-call rotations.
  • Incident Response: Serve as incident commander for production incidents, leading approximately 10 investigations and coordinating mitigation across engineering teams through resolution.
  • Kubernetes CI Runners: Migrated GitLab CI runners and internal services from standalone Docker to on-prem Kubernetes with autoscaling and persistent-volume-backed shared caching, resolving job queuing and disk-exhaustion crashes across 1,000+ builds per day.
  • Security: Own platform security inquiries, vulnerability reviews, and DevSecOps work; serve as backup release engineer with hands-on production operational responsibility.
  • MCP Service: Developed and operate the product’s primary MCP service, with just-in-time tool loading to manage a roughly 200K-token tool catalog.
  • AI Infrastructure: Provisioned a LiteLLM gateway connecting Amazon Bedrock with internal AI clusters, and support internal RAG infrastructure covering Notion, Slack, and repositories.
  • Compliance: Contributed to SOC2 compliance, including integrating Vanta to automate compliance monitoring and evidence collection.
  • Customer Installer: Revamped the customer-facing installer that every platform deployment runs through, eliminating install failures from validation errors and fixing long-standing issues with host renaming, switching networking modes, and DHCP configuration for VM networking.
  • DHCP Appliance Mode: Implemented a mode that binds the appliance’s internal services to loopback and lets its virtual NIC take an address from DHCP, so customers no longer have to reconfigure it every time its IP changes.

Kubernetes · GitLab CI · LiteLLM · Amazon Bedrock · MCP · Node.js · Vanta

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Feb – Jul 2026

Corellium (a Cellebrite company)

Details
  • Release Engineering: Owned the build, packaging, and deployment systems that ship the Corellium platform to multi-tenant cloud, single-tenant, and on-premises customers, including ARM64/x86 cross-compilation, Debian packaging, and version management.
  • Observability: Led the platform’s move from Datadog back to self-hosted Prometheus and Grafana on a single EC2 instance, cutting the monitoring bill.
  • Database Migration: Migrated the platform’s on-cluster Galera database to Amazon RDS, ending recurring deadlocks, reducing downtime, isolating database faults from the cluster, and removing the overhead of self-managing it on EC2.

Debian packaging · Prometheus · Grafana · Datadog · Amazon RDS · Galera

Software Engineer, Platform

May 2023 – Feb 2026

Corellium

Details
  • CI/CD Migration: Modernized CI/CD for 50+ engineers, moving the platform’s pipelines from Jenkins to GitLab CI, building versioned Docker images, and standing up new pipelines and services on EC2.
  • Shared CI Templates: Built versioned, backward-compatible shared GitLab CI templates so teams adopt updates without breaking their pipelines.
  • Dependency Automation: Rolled out Renovate to automate dependency and template updates across repositories.
  • Configurable Internal Proxying: Designed and built configurable proxying of internal service calls for private-cloud customers who run their own infrastructure.
  • VM Storage Admin Tool: Designed and built an admin tool for managing virtual machine storage, end to end across backend, middleware, and frontend.
  • Fixed long-standing latent deployment issues, making releases noticeably smoother.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Shipped Terraform changes for new CloudFront distributions, S3 buckets, and Lambda functions.

Node.js · React · AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, Lambda) · Terraform · GitLab CI · Renovate

Software Engineer

Jul 2022 – May 2023

Silicon Valley Bank

Details
  • Credit Limit Monitoring: Built a greenfield system of Java Spring Boot microservices that alerted internal VPs as client accounts approached their credit limits, with a dashboard to monitor them.
  • Provisioned its AWS infrastructure with Terraform and automated its CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions.
  • Served in the team’s rotating tech-lead role.

Java · Spring Boot · AWS · Terraform · GitHub Actions

Software Developer

Sep 2021 – May 2022

PKT Borum Lab, University of Florida

Details
  • Dietary Log Tracker: Rebuilt the internal Flask app research staff used to record precise dietary data for later data-science analysis.
  • Moved it onto UF’s private cloud, containerized it with Docker, and automated builds and deployments through CI/CD.
  • Worked with the clinic to meet HIPAA requirements by restricting access to UF’s internal network and adding user authentication.

Python · Flask · Docker

Software Engineering Intern

Summer 2021

JPMorgan Chase

Details
  • Service Initializer: Spring Boot project generator, interactive guide, auto-generated docs, and testing suite for JPMC’s internal service infrastructure, built with two other interns.
  • Cut intern onboarding from one week to one hour by giving new interns a sandbox to spin up and experiment with services on the internal infrastructure.

Angular · Java · Spring Boot · Kafka · Cassandra · AWS

Ventures

Chargeback Heaven

2025

Co-founder

  • SaaS platform for merchants to track and dispute payment chargebacks.
  • Human-in-the-loop AI service: monitored merchant inboxes via the Gmail API, drafted dispute responses for specialist review, and fine-tuned a Llama model on the reviewed responses toward full automation.
  • Signed 3 hotel customers after canvassing every hotel in Miami / Fort Lauderdale; didn’t reach product-market fit and wound it down.

Python · Llama · Hugging Face · n8n · Gmail API · React · Node.js · MongoDB · AWS · Terraform

Projects

PredBot

Aug – Oct 2026

Cross-venue prediction-market arbitrage

  • Go trading system for Kalshi and Polymarket sports markets with authenticated real-time data feeds, backtesting, paper trading, and live execution.
  • Runs on homelab infrastructure with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus, plus CI, an operator runbook, and risk controls including a kill switch.

Go · OpenTelemetry · Grafana · Loki · Prometheus

Skills

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

2022

University of Florida

  • Penetration Testing
  • Malware Reverse Engineering
  • AI for Games