Victor Santana
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The person behind the commits.

I'm a full stack software engineer with 4 years of production experience at Cimpress, where I've worked across the main order pipeline from merchant intake to fulfillment handoff. Most days I'm deep in microservices, AWS infrastructure, monitoring, and production incidents. Outside of work, I'm with my wife and our dogs, drinking yerba mate, tuning custom keyboards, and doing hobby photography and videography. I'm a devout Christian, and that shapes how I try to show up in both work and life.

Experience4 Years
Victor Santana
Ushuaia, Argentina

Where I've worked.

Cimpress Technologies

Full-Stack Software Engineer, Merchant Orders / LochNess

Waltham, MA · April 2022 – Present

At Cimpress, I have worked across the main order pipeline, from merchant intake through handoff to fulfillment. The work includes microservice development, AWS infrastructure ownership, monitoring, logging, and production incident response.

Merchant Orders / LochNess

Dec 2025 – Present

  • Moved to Merchant Orders while that team shifted from Vista into Cimpress, then ramped up quickly in a Java microservice architecture at the top of the Vistaprint order funnel.
  • Found a race condition in a payment listener that caused duplicate fulfillments. Built DynamoDB idempotency and conditional-write deduplication that eliminated it and saved over $100K each year.
  • Handle frontline production incidents across both services and infrastructure, using AWS plus monitoring and logging tooling to triage failures quickly. Wrote remediation scripts that recovered thousands of bad finance invoices before they spread downstream.
  • Lead technical discovery with partner teams when initiatives stall, then turn business bottlenecks into concrete engineering plans people can execute.

OPTIC

Apr 2022 – Dec 2025

  • Worked across the main OPTIC order path in a multi-language microservice architecture, covering both application work and infrastructure responsibilities in AWS, monitoring, and logging.
  • Reworked the FRWC step generator to skip redundant artwork processing, cutting order processing time by 94.6%.
  • Mapped an undocumented React and Java complaints service, shipped Amazon-deadline features ahead of schedule, and reduced support agents' average handling time.
  • Migrated 20+ microservices from Auth0 to Customizr and OAuth, completed the OPA API move 10 days early, and reduced third-party API costs.

Robotics Engineering Intern · DOLL Labs Inc. · Lexington, MA · May–Aug 2021

Autonomous navigation stack for TurtleBot3 using ROS, Python, and OpenCV.


Web Development Intern · Cadence Design Systems · Chelmsford, MA · May–Aug 2018

Internal documentation portal for EDA verification engineers.

Education

UMass Amherst

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Amherst, MA · May 2022

Georgia Tech

Master of Science, Computer Science
Atlanta, GA · Fall 2026 (Incoming)
Specialization: Robotics, Computer Vision, and AI

What I've built.

RoboticsIn Progress

Autonomous Nerf Targeting Turret

Autonomous pan-tilt turret. 3D-printed base, belt drive, computer vision targeting planned.

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AI AgentRunning

TARS

Locally-hosted AI agent on personal hardware. Voice, model routing, Obsidian memory.

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RoboticsComplete

Autonomous Robot Navigation

TurtleBot 3 maze navigation via LiDAR, colored ball detection with OpenCV. ROS, C++.

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The tools I reach for.

Languages
Java
Java
TypeScript
TypeScript
Python
Python
JavaScript
JavaScript
SQL
C++
C++
Frameworks
Spring Boot
Spring Boot
React
React
ROS
ROS
OpenCV
OpenCV
JUnit
JUnit
Mockito
Cloud & Infra
AWS
AWS
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MongoDB
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ
GitLab CI/CD
GitLab CI/CD
Tools
n8n
n8n
Postman
Postman
Snyk
Snyk
New Relic
New Relic
SumoLogic
SumoLogic
Arduino
Arduino
Linux
Linux
FreeCAD
FreeCAD

Let's work together.

Open to full-stack, backend, and systems engineering roles.
Based in Medford, MA. Open to remote.

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