Basilio Castillo is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building speech and audio capabilities for large-scale products, currently contributing to Google DeepMind’s next-generation GenAI platform. He has driven automatic captioning and dubbing systems used by YouTube and explores multimodal LLM integrations to unlock new audio-first experiences. With a B.S. in Computer Science and Business from Lehigh and an M.S. from Columbia, he blends rigorous academic training with production-grade engineering at the intersection of ML and systems. Known for pragmatic experimentation, he moved from research projects in opinion extraction and educational analytics to shipping robust speech recognition infrastructure at Google. Based in the New York City area, he pairs deep technical focus on audio and multimodal models with a collaborative, innovation-oriented mindset.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Business, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Business at Lehigh University
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Columbia University
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Basilio Castillo - Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind