Gustavo Castro
Staff Engineer at Uber
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGustavo Castro is a Staff Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of software experience and nine years in industry roles, known for designing scalable, message-driven architectures and operationalizing engineering excellence at Uber. He has led backend efforts for critical rider experiences (Pickups and Dropoffs), built experimentation frameworks for operations teams, and scaled services to Uber-level traffic while setting architecture, testing, and metrics standards. His background spans full-stack and cloud-native systems—from large eCommerce .NET platforms to AWS-based asynchronous media processing—combining product focus with strong engineering discipline. A Debian Sid user and advocate of free software, he brings a pragmatic, data-informed approach to tradeoffs and has a track record of mentoring teams and driving SLA-aligned initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering (Extended Major), Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering (Extended Major) at The University of Queensland
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (20)
desktop-application10
printable9
javascript9
java9
microprofile9
open-source9
swing9
accounting-software8
network-server8
tomee8
freecad7
accounting7
apache7
css5
3d-printing4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gacsnic/PICO
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Sistema Contable para MicroEmpresas Nicaraguenses.
Contributions:6 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 4 months
sistemajava
gacsnic/first-steps
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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