Pedro Santos is a seasoned software engineer with over 25 years of experience in diverse industries. With a wide range of expertise in programming, engineering, and architecture, Pedro has worked on desktop, mobile, and web applications, cloud-based enterprise applications, and embedded systems. After working on multiple products as a consultant and managing software engineering teams, Pedro has focused on educating and inspiring developers at all levels of proficiency. As an author, speaker, and mentor, he has helped developers with programming basics, object-oriented design principles, refactoring legacy applications, testing, architecture decisions, and career development choices.

Pedro has a Bachelor's in Management from Universidade Lusofona, a Master's in IT from the University of Liverpool, and studied High School at Colégio Moderno. His career includes roles such as CTO and Co-founder at CoKaiDo, Principal Software Engineer at ASOS.com, Principal Consultant at Codurance, Tech Lead at Global Radio UK and Vueling Airlines, Sr. Solution Developer at Avanade, and Founder of LetsBasket. Moreover, Pedro has presented sessions at various conferences, developer groups, and open spaces worldwide, such as DDD Europe, Conferencia Agile Spain, SPA Conference, ITAKE Romania, Agile Portugal, Socrates, Code Freeze, and Software Crafts Barcelona, among others.

Pedro speaks fluently three languages, Portuguese, Spanish, and English, and has basic conversation skills in French, Catalan, and Italian. He is also active on Twitter and Github.