Carlos聽Castillo
Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolCarlos Castillo is a Principal Applied Scientist in Seattle with over a decade of industrial experience and more than 15 years combining academic and industry research, focused on turning advanced research in computer science into production-ready solutions. He holds a PhD from the University of Maryland and has held research and leadership roles at Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, and as CTO of a tech startup, bridging deep technical expertise with product and organizational delivery. At Amazon he applies applied-science rigor to large-scale problems while maintaining hands-on coding instincts evidenced by meaningful open-source contributions such as enhancing Atom's vim-mode-plus bracket-matching and text-object features. Comfortable in both academia and industry, he brings a researcher鈥檚 curiosity together with pragmatic engineering, often surfacing subtle usability and motion-logic improvements that benefit developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidad Sim贸n Bol铆varDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Maryland
Spanish, English
Github Skills (5)
atom-editor10
javascript10
coffeescript10
keybindings10
textbox9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
t9md/atom-vim-mode-plus
May 2014 - Jun 2014
vim-mode improved
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily focused on enhancing the `vim-mode-plus` Atom package, specifically implementing and refining the bracket-matching functionality. This involved modifying the core motion logic within the codebase, adding new commands, and updating keybindings for improved usability. Furthermore, they contributed to the text object features by improving and adding new ones. The user's work aimed to provide a more robust and feature-rich Vim experience within the Atom editor.
vim-modevimimprovedvim-plugincamelcase
carlosdcastillo/vim-mode
May 2014 - Apr 2019
Contributions:197 commits, 10 PRs, 98 pushes in 5 years
next-generationatomneovimvim
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