Jake Casto
Founder at Layers
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorJake Casto is a founder and full-stack engineer with a decade of experience building scalable SaaS, digital commerce, and crypto platforms. He co-founded Proton, a ghost agency focused on Shopify Plus, and now leads Layers, bringing hands-on architecture and engineering to high-performance, low-latency systems serving millions. Fluent across PHP, Python, C/C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, and Ruby, he combines deep technical breadth with practical experience running infrastructure that handles hundreds of millions of daily requests. Known for turning ambitious, “impossible” requirements into production realities, he also mentors teams, navigates cross-departmental strategy, and contributes to product-led growth. Based in New York, he blends entrepreneurial drive with a legal and financial fluency that helps deliver robust, commercially viable software.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
0x15f/nova-comments
Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
A commenting tool for Laravel Nova
Contributions:4 commits, 13 pushes in 2 years 6 months
laravelcommentinglaravel-novanova
ImagicalGamer/EconomyPlus
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 35 PRs, 308 pushes in 11 months
minecrafteconomyeconomy-pluginbukkit-pluginbukkit
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