Alef Castelo
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Zillow
Mexico City
Summary
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Top SchoolAlef Castelo is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12 years of experience building and evolving both monoliths and microservices across payments, fintech, and consumer platforms. He’s fluent in PHP, Node.js, Clojure and modern frontend stacks (React + TypeScript), and has shaped architecture and testing strategies—introducing mutation testing, clean architecture, and 100% coverage practices in PCI-sensitive projects. At Nubank he helped migrate customers and delivered money-box product work powered by Datomic and Kafka for high-availability services, and he now applies that scale experience at Zillow. A community organizer for PHP Com Rapadura, Alef combines hands-on coding with mentoring, hiring and cross-team coordination, and he often drives proactive architectural fixes rather than waiting for problems to surface. Notably, he pairs pragmatic legacy-code improvements with cloud-native patterns on AWS and GCP, making systems faster, safer and more autonomous.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree (Dropout), Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree (Dropout), Computer Science at Universidade de Fortaleza
Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (46)
codeception9
phpunit9
angular8
integration-testing8
nest8
php8
user-management8
bdd8
nette8
acceptance-testing8
nodejs8
unit-testing8
testing8
typescript7
nestjs7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Gybsom/guia-para-certificacao-php
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:150 commits in 15 days
securityphpguia
PHPcomRapadura/Vagas
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
Espaço para a divulgação de vagas para desenvolvedores via issues do Github
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 7 months
reactjsreactvagasvagas-para-desenvolvedores
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