Amaia Castro
Site Reliability Engineer at BeBanjo
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolAmaia Castro is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Madrid with 17 years of hands-on experience transitioning from a Senior Backend Developer role specialized in Ruby on Rails to SRE work focused on observability and distributed systems. She has deep expertise delivering and scaling backend services for video-on-demand platforms and catalog metadata pipelines at BeBanjo, and has consulted extensively as a freelance Rails developer. Amaia combines practical sysadmin experience from co-founding a web development and hosting shop with modern reliability practices, giving her a rare full-stack operational perspective. She contributes to open-source civic tech projects like ConsulDemocracy, where she led model refactors and schema migrations to prepare for new legislation features. Known for pragmatic refactoring and intent to reduce future merge conflicts, she balances long-term maintainability with shipping features. Fluent in Ruby and Rails, she brings a steady, systems-minded approach to making complex distributed applications observable and resilient.
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 (11)
ruby-rails10
rails10
refactoring10
ruby-on-rails10
refactor10
ruby10
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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