Amaia Castro
Site Reliability Engineer at BeBanjo
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolAmaia Castro is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer based in Madrid with 17 years of backend and reliability engineering experience. She blends deep Ruby on Rails expertise with a strong focus on distributed systems, observability, and scalable architectures, delivering resilient back-end services from freelance projects to BeBanjo's stack. Her career spans entrepreneurial roots as a co-founder of Dabne and long-term Rails development, underscoring a practical, customer-focused approach. In her current role at BeBanjo, she handles SRE responsibilities while continuing to drive backend excellence, and she also contributes to open-source efforts such as the consuldemocracy project, where she refactored models and schemas in preparation for future modules. This mix of hands-on development, operations discipline, and open-source collaboration equips her to transform complex requirements into reliable systems. Based in Madrid, Amaia consistently bridges product needs and robust infrastructure, turning ambitious features into observable, maintainable deployments.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
IngenierÃa Informática (Computer Science), IngenierÃa Informática (Computer Science) at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
rails510
rails10
refactoring10
refactorings10
ruby-on-rails10
refactor10
activerecord9
html8
testing8
css5
git4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
Consul Democracy - Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:181 commits, 12 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Amaia focused on refactoring the codebase by renaming models and migrating them to a new structure. They modified the database schema to reflect the changes and updated various views and controllers to align with the refactored models. These changes appear to be aimed at preparing the application for future developments and potentially reducing conflicts with upcoming feature implementations, specifically a new legislation module.
web-softwarerailsrubygovernmente-participation
PopulateTools/consul
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:11 PRs, 67 pushes, 24 branches in 3 months
governmente-participationconsulparticipationweb-software
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