Daniel Castellani
Sr. Software Engineer at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Castellani is a senior software engineer with 14+ years of experience building reliable, scalable systems and leading teams across academia and industry, currently at Amazon in New York. He combines hands-on expertise in backend/data engineering (Postgres, Python, Spark, AWS) with proven leadership in secure research environments—having architected and operated a FedRAMP-moderate research data facility used for administrative microdata. Daniel is both a practiced manager and educator who prefers to empower teammates to solve problems autonomously, a style that helped reduce production bugs and increase customer satisfaction for platforms serving tens of thousands of users. His background spans building CI/CD and quality tooling, university-level teaching and research (including an urban data profiler), and driving process improvements that scale across organizations. Curious and self-taught, he frequently blends research thinking with production engineering to deliver durable, low-maintenance software.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduation, Computer Science, Undergraduation, Computer Science at Universidade Federal FluminenseCareer Advancement Course, Career Advancement Course at New York University
English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
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Github Skills (86)
python10
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data-management10
data-gov10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dancastellani/first_app
Jun 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:25 commits in 1 year
dancastellani/bbb-paredao
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:62 commits in 10 days
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