PEOPLE
SYSTEMS
DECISIONS
OUTCOMES
Engineering leadership
through change and complexity.
I work across people, technology and business to help engineering teams make better decisions and deliver.
TECHNOLOGY
PRIVACY
OPEN WEB
INDEPENDENCE
01 / ABOUT
I’m Michael Santillán.
I’m an Engineering Manager based in Brazil. I lead software teams through growth, change and complex technical decisions.
My work sits between people, engineering systems and business context: creating clarity, developing people and improving how teams make decisions and deliver.
I also write about technology, privacy, the open web and the tools and ideas that shape how we work.
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02 / WRITING
Thinking through technology.
Essays and practical notes on engineering, privacy, the open web and how technology shapes the way we work.
Read the blog ↗03 / PROJECTS
Selected projects.
Public work, experiments and tools shaped by problems I wanted to understand or solve.
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