Gerardo Castro
Software Engineer at Pinecone
New York, New York, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolGerardo Castro is a software engineer with eight years of experience building database-focused systems and developer-facing tools, currently on Pinecone’s database team in New York. He has shipped observability and access-control features at Cockroach Labs and contributed UI enhancements to the widely used CockroachDB open-source project, improving SQL explain-plan search and session dashboards. His background spans production work at startups accelerating clean energy to internships at Google, Facebook, Snap and Twitter, giving him a strong mix of systems, backend and UX-facing engineering. Gerardo pairs practical engineering with theoretical curiosity—his GitHub tagline, “that works in practice but how does it do in theory?”, reflects a penchant for understanding underlying algorithms and data models. He’s skilled at turning complex database telemetry and permissions requirements into usable interfaces and reliable server-side features. Based in New York, he brings a pragmatic, research-minded approach to cloud-native databases and metrics-driven product work.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Regents Diploma, Physics, Advanced Regents Diploma, Physics at Brooklyn Technical High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at New York University
Github Skills (13)
uid10
databases10
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
cockroachdb10
react10
typescript-types10
database10
distributed-database9
go9
sql8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:139 reviews, 21 commits, 87 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gerardo focused on enhancing the UI for the CockroachDB platform. Their work included incorporating the logical plan text into the stmts page search functionality, enabling a search across the explain plan page. They also added a column selector and filter to the sessions overview page, including session details. Additionally, the user sorted the app names in the SQL activity dropdown menu. The user also added UI features to the database page.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
gtr/cockroach
Jan 2022 - Sep 2023
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:244 pushes, 65 branches in 1 year 8 months
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.