Victor Santoro

Sharon Springs, NY 13459 contact@victorsantoro.com

With a passion for all things tech, I can provide a comprehensive range of expertise in cloud solutions, software development, data management, and engineering. As an industry professional, I can bring extensive knowledge and experience to the table, ensuring top-notch solutions tailored to your unique business needs. Whether you're looking to migrate your infrastructure to the cloud, develop cutting-edge software applications and internal tooling, optimize data management processes, start a new website, start accepting online payments, or engineer robust solutions, I am here to guide you every step of the way. With a commitment to delivering excellence and staying at the forefront of technological advancements, I will help you navigate the ever-evolving world of technology.


Experience

Sr. Manager - Data & Software Engineering

MFR Consultants - MFRConsultants.com

Senior IT consultant for multiple projects/clients.
Development of internal Proof-Of-Concept applications.
Development of internal software tooling.
Management and development of Azure cloud services.
Development, management, and SEO strategy of company website.
Client engagements for technology deliverables.
RFP/Proposal development.
New technology invention/patents.
IT environment assessments (current,future,gap)

2020 - Present

Software Engineer - Team Lead

GID Global - GE Renewable Energy

Engineering a high availability messaging data pipeline to stream data for 30,000 wind turbines from edge to AWS cloud.
Using SQL/ NoSQL Databases, Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS (IAM,S3,EC2,EKS).
Development in GE Predix Cloud and AWS.
Automated deployment using Jenkins & GitHub.

2016 - 2020

Database Developer - Team Lead

GID Global - GE Power

Database Design, Development, and Administration.
Creation of ETL jobs in GreenPlum data warehouse to feed applications and reports.
PHP Web Development for 30+ web applications.
Oracle / MySQL / SQL Server Development.
Migration of applications to AWS.

2013 - 2016

Technical Specialist / Data Analyst

Granite International - GE Power

SQL Reporting (PL/SQL,T-SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
Familiar with SQL tools such as SQLDeveloper, Toad, SQL Plus, DBeaver, and PGAdmin.
Migration of a Tier 1 GE application (Project Net to EC2 Documentum).
User administration in Oracle Primavera.
Custom built python software solutions.
Web integrations with Google Search Appliance.

2008 - 2012

Technical Specialist

AirPage Communications Group

Database development in Oracle, MySQL, and Access. HTML/CSS Web Development.
Small business networking.
Successfully improved monthly billing routines by developing automated Batch & Shell scripts.
Served as the primary contact for technical issues for over 4,000 customers.
Working with UNIX Based Paging System.

2000 - 2007

Technical Support

GTECH - NY State Lottery

Support NY State lottery clients with ordering and technical issues.

1999 - 2000

Education

ME College

Degree: Information Technology

GPA: 3.6

2001 -2004

Certifications

  • Microsoft - CyberSecurity
  • ScrumAlliance - Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • GE Predix Certified Developer


  • CSM CSM

Skills

Software
  • HTML/CSS
  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • NodeJS
  • Python
  • Kafka / Zookeeper
  • OAuth2
  • Batch, VBScript, Shell
Data
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • NoSQL - Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra
  • Data Engineering
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Analysis & ETL
Architecture
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • AWS (IAM, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, etc)
  • Azure (ADF, IAM, VM, Active Directory, OpenAI Cognitive, SQL Databases, SQL Server, etc)
  • ChatGPT / Azure OpenAI Language Model Development/Integration
  • Web Servers - NGINX, Apache, IIS, Wamp
  • Virtual Machines
Yes, even more
  • Atlassian Jira
  • Atlassian Confluence
  • Rally
  • ServiceNow
  • EMC Documentum
  • Docker
  • Agile Development / Certified ScrumMaster
  • ElasticSearch / Logstash / Kibana (ELK)

Interests

I enjoy spending time with my family, taking trips to the caribbean, and playing with my dogs. I have spent my entire career in technology and it is part of my every day life. I have never stopped learning and developing new technical skills and will continue to apply those skills to help the people that are struggling in the technology space. I am an technology agnostic, an open thinker, and welcome new ideas. Lets collaborate together.