Santiago Vargas^xp

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Santiago Vargas

Data Engineering Intern (prev.) @ Mineral Resources · Perth, Australia

I got into software through game dev and web projects as a kid, and the itch to build things never went away. I graduated from Curtin with a Software Development degree in early 2026 and spent my final summer as a Data Engineering intern at Mineral Resources, building production data models for iron ore sales and shipping.

I like building things that have their own personality. This site looks like Windows XP because that's the computer I grew up with, so working on it feels a bit like being a kid again. I love the little touches too, like the holographic guitar-pick cursor and baseball-card member bios I gave The Clean Tones site, or the XP cursor you're moving around right now. Small creative choices that are functional, fun to build, and fun to find.

Outside of work I'm usually mid-project. The latest is ConditionMon, a predictive maintenance pipeline that takes NASA jet engine sensor data all the way to a live dashboard on AWS. If I can ship it and someone actually uses it, I'm happy.

EDU: Bachelor of Science, Software Development, Curtin University, graduated february 2026