Samuel Batista

Born and raised in Portugal, I moved to the USA to pursue my dream of becoming a video game developer. The blood of Portuguese explorers runs in my veins, and it shows: I never stay long in familiar territory.

After graduating from Full Sail University with a degree in Game Development, I spent nearly a decade developing games at Firaxis and Big Huge Games.

When games stopped teaching me new things, I taught myself the web and spent years building complex applications with React, Node and TypeScript.

These days I work with AI to build MCP Manager, a product that helps businesses secure and monitor how AIs and humans connect to their systems of record. On the side I run DataConnector-Pro, a small consulting shop where I use AI to help businesses modernize legacy workflows that off-the-shelf tools can't reach.

I love programming, AI, open source software, video games, economics, teaching & learning.

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01/2026 - Present

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  Staff Engineer at Usercentrics

  I helped Visor effectively pivot into MCP Manager, which was acquired in 2026 by Usercentrics GmbH. I am the principal engineer expanding and maintaining our MCP Gateways which help our customers secure and monitor connections between AI agents and a wide range of MCP servers.

06/2025 - 01/2026

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  Principal Software Engineer at MCP Manager

  I was the primary architect of MCP Manager's MCP Gateways. Their simple design and exclusive focus on the Streamable HTTP transport protocol allowed MCP Manager to get to market faster and more feature filled than the competition. I led the efforts to connect our legacy Python codebases safely and securely with a more modern and maintainable TypeScript backend that offered greater development velocity.

09/2024 - 01/2026

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  Principal Software Engineer at Visor

  I helped revamp Visor's pricing plans and checkout experience which delivered an increase in sales as well as average revenue per user. I helped to modernize development tooling by integrating TypeScript into both frontend and backend repositories. I gained experience with AI technologies by helping to design and implement AI templates functionality into Visor, allowing our customers to save time when creating new workbooks.

07/2023 - Present

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  Founder of DataConnector-Pro LLC

  I founded DataConnector-Pro on July 3rd, 2023, and run it solo. It's a consulting shop where I help small businesses modernize legacy workflows that off-the-shelf tools can't reach, building the software, automation, websites and data integrations that connect their systems to each other and to AI. It's also where I tinker with products of my own.

01/2021 - 09/2024

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  Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce

  I helped build a modern publishing experience for AppExchange partners, using Lightning Web Components, TypeScript, HTML, CSS on the Frontend and NodeJS, NestJS & Postgres on the Backend. I created high quality UI components and used them to build complex, maintainable, high performance, and easy to use web applications.

01/01/2023

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  Open Source Application

  Created a free and open source program to create encrypted files using web browsers: Argon2 Portable Secret.

01/2021 - 04-2021

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  Website Development

  Built a website for Indie Maker Syndicate, an experienced group of creators with backgrounds in promoting independent games and maker-based projects.