Damião Castro is a Manager of Cloud Engineering based in Amsterdam with 10 years of experience building data-first systems and cloud-native architectures. He champions the idea that every product is a data product and has deep hands-on expertise across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, favoring serverless primitives like Functions, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, CosmosDB and EventHub. At startups and enterprises alike he has led the creation of data warehouses and high-throughput data products, notably selecting BigQuery as the core warehouse for a fast-growing startup. His Reforge training in Advanced Growth Strategies and Retention + Engagement gives him a rare blend of technical depth and customer-centric growth perspective. Comfortable with CI/CD using GitHub Actions and integrations such as WhatsApp Business API, he translates business needs into reliable, scalable pipelines. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer-manager who pairs database obsession with a strong focus on delivering measurable customer outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree, Computer Cience, Licentiate degree, Computer Cience at Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Contributions:45 releases, 113 commits, 70 PRs in 8 months
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