Summary
Edgard Castro is a Lead Software Engineer based in Krakow with over 15 years of hands-on experience and a 25+ year background in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and SRE practices. Currently leading platform engineering at Nike, he has a track record of shaping resilient, scalable systems across finance and e-commerce at firms like StoneX and Grid Dynamics. His career spans senior technical and leadership roles from CTO to infrastructure lead, reflecting deep operational expertise and an ability to translate business needs into production-grade platforms. Known wryly on GitHub as a "Computer Psychotherapist," he brings a pragmatic, people-first approach to incident response and team coaching. Edgard blends low-level systems knowledge with modern cloud-native patterns, often surfacing operational simplicity from complex distributed environments. His Tokyo-to-Krakow trajectory and long tenure in production operations reveal a durable curiosity for evolving platform challenges.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese