Senior DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Building reliable cloud platforms, automating complex infrastructure, and helping companies scale with confidence.
Cloud by profession. Music by passion. Family by purpose.
Marcelo Santoro is a Brazilian Cloud and DevOps consultant, founder of Santoro IN, with deep experience designing, modernizing and operating production infrastructure for companies in Brazil and internationally.
His work combines cloud architecture, automation, observability, database modernization and cost optimization, always focused on reliability, simplicity and long-term maintainability.
Beyond technology, Marcelo is also a keyboard player, musician and family-oriented person.
Real results from production environments
Specialized expertise across the cloud infrastructure stack
AWS, GCP and Azure infrastructure design for production environments.
CI/CD, automation, deployment pipelines and developer experience.
Terraform, Terragrunt, reusable modules and cloud governance.
Docker, ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes, Helm and workload modernization.
MySQL, PostgreSQL, AlloyDB, Redshift, Redis, Valkey and OpenSearch.
Grafana, CloudWatch, alerts, logs, metrics and incident response.
Right sizing, cost reduction, resource optimization and cloud spend control.
Infrastructure for AI workloads, automation and alert analysis.
Highlights from real-world infrastructure modernization work
Reduced monthly AWS costs by approximately 42% through right sizing, ECS modernization, Fargate Spot, storage optimization and infrastructure review.
Modernized container workloads from ECS on EC2 to ECS Fargate, improving operational simplicity and increasing deployment speed by up to 3x.
Designed and executed a large-scale logical replication strategy involving thousands of tenant schemas migrating from Supabase PostgreSQL to Google Cloud AlloyDB.
Worked on a large PostgreSQL migration from Render to Google Cloud SQL, involving approximately 36 to 40TB of production data.
Modernized log delivery architecture using Fluentd, Kinesis and cloud-native pipelines to improve scalability, reliability and observability.
Executed AWS RDS MySQL Blue/Green upgrades to reduce downtime and risk during production database maintenance.
Supported migration, tuning and production operation of OpenSearch clusters handling high-volume search workloads.
Built an AI-powered alert analyzer integrating monitoring alerts with OpenAI to classify, explain and improve incident response workflows.
Tools and technologies I work with
Music has always been part of Marcelo's life. As a keyboard player and piano enthusiast, he finds in music the same balance he looks for in engineering: precision, creativity and emotion.
Keyboard Player
Roland XP-80
Logic Pro
Home Studio
Worship / Live Music
Music Production
Available for consulting, cloud architecture, DevOps modernization and infrastructure advisory.