Adolfo Castellon
Senior Director Of Engineering at Workday
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdolfo Castellon is a seasoned engineering leader who has built and scaled programmatic advertising platforms from prototype to industry-leading businesses, including BrightRoll’s RTB marketplace which reached a $120M/year run rate and was acquired by Yahoo for $640M. He led engineering across Yahoo’s programmatic and premium supply platforms, growing the business roughly 400% and scaling systems to handle over 50 billion daily transactions and 12 TB of data per day. Known for turning small teams into elite, highly collaborative engineering organizations, he grew BrightRoll’s team from 10 to 100+ engineers and launched an award-winning DSP and global infrastructure footprint. He co-founded Pipedream and more recently joined Workday as Senior Director of Engineering, blending startup grit with enterprise-scale operational rigor. Based in California and trained at MIT in EECS, he pairs deep systems and data infrastructure expertise with a knack for aligning engineering strategy to commercial outcomes. Quietly experimental during career transitions, he’s spent time prototyping new ideas that bridge product innovation and scalable architecture.
6 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BE (Bachelor's of Engineering) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BE (Bachelor's of Engineering) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (19)
docker10
python10
low-code10
typescript10
bash10
event-sourcing10
integrations10
automation10
api10
ipaas10
rest10
golang10
serverless10
rest-api10
nodejs10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
CarlosWay23/pipedream
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Serverless integration and compute platform. Free for developers.
Contributions:32 commits in 1 day
serverlessfor-developerscomputeserverless-frameworkfree-for-developers
PipedreamHQ/vue-json-pretty
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
A JSON tree view component that is easy to use and also supports data selection.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
view-componentjson-treejavascripttree-viewselection
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