Summary
Cristina Castellano is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native applications, microservices, and scalable web services across Java and Spring Boot ecosystems. She has led delivery of intelligence features at Liferay—designing audience segmentation engines, A/B testing integrations, and clean RESTful APIs using OpenAPI and OData—and now applies that expertise at New Relic. A pragmatic testing and quality-obsessed engineer, Cristina has a track record of improving test coverage, CI/CD pipelines, and automated Docker deployments to AWS. Her background spans platform infrastructure work (including the Arquillian Liferay Extension) to migrating legacy JEE systems into OSGi, showing strength in both modernization and platform design. Based in the Madrid metropolitan area, she combines hands-on implementation with team leadership and a knack for translating complex analytics and search (Elasticsearch) requirements into production-ready solutions. An engineer comfortable in legacy and cloud-first contexts, she often bridges testing, observability, and API design to deliver dependable software.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of Hertfordshire
Ingeniera Técnica en Informática de Sistemas, Informática, Ingeniera Técnica en Informática de Sistemas, Informática at Universidad de La Laguna
Spanish, English