Ignacio Castro
Director, Business Tech Platforms - Consumer And Business Banking
Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolIgnacio Castro is a seasoned technology executive and founder with over a decade of experience delivering complex, regulated banking and fintech programs across the US, Spain and Latin America. Currently directing Business Tech Platforms at Santander Bank, he combines strategic roadmap ownership for branch-facing systems with hands-on incident and governance leadership for a 480-branch support footprint. He has repeatedly built and scaled high-performing teams to compress multi-year transformations into months, led large InfoSec and regulatory remediation portfolios, and managed difficult vendor and stakeholder dynamics under tight budgets. An entrepreneurial operator, Ignacio co-founded multiple startups and accelerators, mentors founders through the Founder Institute, and now advises AI/ML founders via his VC and product experiments—bringing a founder’s bias for rapid learning to enterprise delivery. His background blends an MIT Sloan Fellows MBA with technical roots in computer science and product management, enabling him to bridge engineering, risk/compliance and business strategy effectively.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership MBA, MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership MBA at MIT Sloan School of ManagementMaster Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (4)
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Github contributions (5)
nachoJcastro/2015TsiProyectoV2
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:51 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
nachoJcastro/pruebaruby
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:13 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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