Víctor Santos

I was fortunate enough to have managed Victor as a Staff Software Engineer right when I joined Vroom back in 2020 for 2+ years. This was my first role when I joined a company fully remote which includes onboarding and learning to work with new team members all remotely. However, with Victor under my management, it surely helped to lighten my workload and gave me more time to put focus on other items. I truly believe there is nothing that Victor can’t do. He was able to jump into any team and take on any role to help develop and push out software features in any part of the stack and platform. Some notable projects off the top of my head are helping to design and build several micro front-end apps leveraging the latest and greater frameworks and design pattern to push out performant and stable apps to both internal business users and external users on the web. The company gained value from these apps with features including online document signing leveraging Docusign APIs and an Inventory Stock In Admin Tool to help business users easily stock in new inventory with real-time data validation. The biggest project was building a new admin tool that leverages the latest design pattern utilizing module federation pattern to allow the dev teams to quickly build performant and snappy modules and bundle them into an intuitive UI which helped the business to automate the document validation process in our customer car buying and selling transaction journey. I can go on and on about many more projects but I’ll surely hit the character limit in this text box.

Victor is one of the finest engineers I have ever worked with. At Vroom, he single-handedly built a highly complex web application in a fast-paced project. He just doesn't write code, he is highly passionate about his work. Victor always tests his own work before passing it on to the testing team, he truly cares about delivering the highest quality work. Although we did not have a designer on the team for a while, every UI element he designed and built was intuitive, creative, and user-friendly. He is a “ROCKSTAR” developer with a high work ethic. Any team would be lucky to have him.

I had the pleasure of being Victor's engineering manager for the past year, and I must say I have been consistently impressed with his technical skills and attention to detail. Victor is an exceptional frontend engineer, and his contributions have been crucial to the success of our projects. He designed and architected our frontend using modern and best practices, which has greatly contributed to the scalability and maintainability of our system. Victor is not only technically strong, but he's also a great team player and mentor. He helped onboard new team members and provided guidance to junior engineers. During a particularly stressful project with tight deadlines, Victor remained calm and helped organize and motivate the team. Victor takes ownership of his work and is committed to delivering high-quality results. He consistently meets or exceeds our expectations. I highly recommend Victor for any front-end engineering or leadership roles, and I have no doubt that he will continue to excel in his career.

I worked with Victor at Vroom for several months in 2023. We were tasked with what seemed to be an impossible deadline in creating a new application. I worked closely with Victor as he tackled each challenge, banging out the work quickly and managing work for three additional front-end developers. We hit that deadline. Victor always carefully listened and contributed to every conversation, often bringing up deeper issues or small issues that we needed to account for. I also was able to lean on Victor for design help. He often saw things that needed to be adjusted or were able to help me brainstorm when a new design challenge came along. Not every developer “sees” design details. He does, and it’s very appreciated!

Victor is extremely talented, dedicated, and reliable. He is also a great teammate, always there to help and brainstorm ideas. Everything he works on is of the highest quality, ensuring the best available technology is used. His positive attitude made hours-long meetings and discussions more fun. I would really love to work together with Victor again!

When I joined Vroom, Victor was actually one of the engineers who interviewed me. I could tell right away that he was an extremely sharp individual. I got the pleasure of working with Victor when our teams got merged during a re-organization at Vroom. I came to learn that Victor values quality and excellence in technology. He is willing to go the extra mile necessary to do things the right way and research the best possible approach given what technology is available. He was the tip of the spear on implementing the Next.js module federation at Vroom so that we could build a new suite of internal apps utilizing micro-frontends while sharing a common layout. Wherever Victor goes, he will clearly leave a massive impact. I would be thrilled if I got to work with him again in the future.

Victor is one of the most capable engineers with whom I was fortunate enough to work. Not only is Victor an extremely talented, driven, and creative engineer, he is also an excellent leader. Victor always took the initiative to make improvements and features without having been asked to do so. He naturally steps up to lead without being asked to, and though not given a title of engineering lead, everyone saw him as such. In addition to delivering on his own workload, he helped coordinate the rest of the team by creating tickets, documenting approaches, and actively engaging with designers during the design process.

I had the privilege to work closely with Victor during our time at Vroom. Victor led all UI initiatives at Vroom. He did an excellent job architecting the framework for all front-end-based services. He is a great leader and mentors junior engineers to achieve their full potential. He had a great grasp of the different technologies that we used at Vroom. He is one of the best engineers that I have worked closely with. Wish our paths will cross again in the future.

I had a great experience working with Victor. He possesses a rare combination of both extreme skill and diligence. Coupled with his consistently positive and pragmatic attitude even in the face of the most difficult situations, I believe any team would benefit immensely from having him on board.

Victor is an excellent problem solver with a deep front-end skill set. He's always looking for ways to improve the team workflow, maintain best code practices, and upgrade app performance. He's the first to take on the toughest problems and is a joy to work with on a team together.

Victor is an incredibly talented developer and designer who I find myself lucky to work with. He has a demonstrated ability to take idea's and turn them into beautiful, functional tools. Victor is often asked to go above and beyond his regular duties and rises to every occasion. Victor's ability to manage multiple assignments of varying scopes is inspiring. And most importantly, he's a team player, who will always offer to lend a hand to anyone who needs it.

Victor is an experienced front-end engineer with outstanding delivery abilities and impressive skill set. He is a team player and is very passionate about bettering UI and UX in general. Highly recommend.

I have had the privilege of working alongside Victor on the Amelia project, and I can honestly say that he is an exceptional engineer. Victor has the ability to take on the toughest problems and explain his solutions in the simplest of ways. Victor is a natural leader, that any team can greatly benefit from and if that wasn't enough, the guy also is very professional and very well-mannered.

Victor is a great team player and an experienced technologist. He has a wide array of skills and has impressive UI and UX in them. Maintains a good work environment and has great work ethics.

Working with Victor was a great experience, we both worked on and lead two separate client-facing chat UI products, and many times we had to collaborate and work on shared products amongst the two to keep them in sync, it was a seamless experience to do so, Victor is a team player, very friendly, a very talented developer and has an outstanding work ethic to deliver the best product and timely manner – any team would be lucky to have him.

Victor is a highly skilled engineer and a reliable team member. I was impressed by Victor's productivity under high pressure across different projects. His consistency, attention to detail and results speak volumes. I would recommend him to any project or team.

Victor is an inspiration and a role model, he never settles for less than excellence, I am inspired by him every day because he knows how to lead by example. I look forward to working with him again in the future.

Victor is a highly talented and experienced Front-End Engineer. He delivers outstanding UI/UX designs with passion and dedication. He is a leader, team player and a pleasure to work with.

We worked on the same project for a couple of months. Victor was leading the UI development (React) part and I have contributed and at the same time learned a lot under his supervision. I want to mention one of the significant learning which I got from victor is defining the architecture of react components. I am really thankful for that.

Tremendously talented and an exceptional team player, had great experiences working with Victor over the last few years on a number of projects. Always an excellent resource across the board, especially when we were targeting launches and major events.

I worked with Victor on the Amelia team for the past 3 and half years. Victor is a very talented and hard working programmer. He also has artistic talent that he had designed the UI of various IOS apps himself.