Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos is the Founder and CEO of Namespace Labs. With over 20 years in the tech industry, Hugo offers unparalleled insights into product development, software engineering, and infrastructure.

During his nearly nine years at Google, Hugo was instrumental in creating the Boq microservices platform, a cornerstone for services like Search, Play, Photos, and Assistant. He also co-led the Assistant Platform, the backbone of Google Assistant and Google’s home hardware segment.

Before his career at Google, Hugo co-founded Blaast, an innovative edge computing company in Helsinki. Blaast was later acquired by Facebook.

At Namespace Labs, Hugo is building the developer stack for fast-moving companies: revolutionizing development workflows, and providing services that achieve 2x-10x faster builds and tests. Their ephemeral compute platform supports developer infrastructure companies, ensuring rapid and secure compute for their customers.