Andres Castano
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorAndrés Castaño is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native platforms and delivery tooling, currently contributing at Square from Melbourne. He has led teams and cloud engineering practices—most recently designing CI/CD and self-service pipelines for GCP at ANZ—combining hands-on implementation of Spinnaker, Terraform and Kubernetes with people leadership. Andrés has driven cloud product launches and event-driven architectures at PaperCut, shipping polyglot microservices (Go, Java, Kotlin) and big-data pipelines on GCP. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he pairs pragmatic engineering (React/TypeScript, Spring) with strong delivery discipline like TDD and DDD. He also takes purposeful career pauses—recently stepping away briefly to focus on family—reflecting a pragmatic approach to work-life balance that informs how he builds sustainable teams and systems.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
548reputation
43kreached
10answers
9questions
Github Skills (97)
autovalue10
apple-login10
intellij10
generator10
plugin10
aerospike10
charts9
helm9
batch9
drag9
apollo-client9
streaming9
facebook-login9
react9
spinnaker9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
afcastano/afcastano.github.io
Mar 2016 - Mar 2026
Contributions:65 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 2 months
afcastano/AutoValuePlugin
Dec 2015 - Jun 2017
AutoValue plugin for IntelliJ
Contributions:74 commits, 10 PRs, 90 pushes in 1 year 6 months
autovalueintellijplugingenerator
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