Fernando Castro
SRE Manager at Universidad de Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
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Top SchoolFernando Castro is an SRE manager and seasoned infrastructure leader with 10 years of experience, currently leading a 7-person team across two datacenters at Canonical to support everything from bare metal to Kubernetes. He blends hands-on sysadmin and developer skills with academic rigor—teaching courses from operating systems to business intelligence at Universidad de Guadalajara while holding a PhD in IT and an MBA. Fernando has built and led cross-functional SRE and DevSecOps teams at enterprise firms like FICO and Oracle, standardizing CI/CD and incident management across global, distributed organizations. Known for moving smoothly between deep technical troubleshooting (WebLogic, mid-tier, databases) and people leadership, he also has a track record of rapidly recruiting and scaling teams under tight timelines. Based in Guadalajara, he pairs practical production-operability expertise with a strong teaching background, making him adept at mentoring engineers and translating complex technical issues to stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, 91.4, Bachelor's degree, Informatics, 91.4 at Universidad de Guadalajara
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
heap-memory6
kubernetes6
dump6
mysql6
java6
system-design5
Github contributions (5)
fernandocc17/Intro-SQL
Mar 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
nmicht/git-101
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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