Carlos Castro
Software Engineering Manager at Pluto TV
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolCarlos Castro is a seasoned software engineering manager with 13+ years building high-scale mobile experiences, specializing in Android since 2010. He led the creation and scaling of Walmart.com Brazil’s Android app from scratch and later grew Pluto TV’s multi-platform Android product from thousands to millions of users while improving stability to under 1% error rates. Equally comfortable in hands-on development and technical leadership, he mentors teams across Android Mobile, TV and embedded platforms and advocates robust architectures using Kotlin, RxJava, Dagger, ROOM and test-driven practices. With an MSc in Software Engineering and early roots in compilers, AOP and C/C++ device customization, he combines deep systems understanding with practical product delivery. Based in São Paulo, he thrives on turning research-informed ideas into resilient production software across diverse platforms.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de PernambucoBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do CearáColégio Christus
Portuguese, English, French
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Github Skills (27)
sdk8
android-sdk8
credit-card8
credit8
testing8
hardware7
android7
scanning7
release-management6
branches6
ocr6
macos5
efi3
java2
ruby2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
carlospontual/TwitchExample
Apr 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
Pluto-tv/persistent-cookie-jar-okhttp
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
A persistent CookieJar implementation for OkHttp 3 based on SharedPreferences
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 4 days
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