Joe Castro
Owner at Joe Castro
Belmar, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoe Castro is a hands-on owner and technologist based in Belmar, New Jersey, with 15 years of professional experience that blends operations, recruitment leadership, and DevOps engineering. He has practical expertise automating infrastructure testing and monitoring—demonstrated by contributions to an open VPS benchmarking project where he implemented Bash and Python scripts to automate downloads, log cleanup, and performance/port checks. Formerly an HR senior recruitment manager, he brings rare cross-functional insight into both technical delivery and talent processes, making him effective at translating requirements into reproducible, auditable systems. Joe focuses on transparency and repeatability in testing, favoring tooling that lets others reproduce benchmarks and validate results independently.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (7)
automation10
ansible-galaxy10
bash10
automations10
python10
ansible10
networking9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
joedicastro/vps-comparison
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
A comparison between some VPS providers. It uses Ansible to perform a series of automated benchmark tests over the VPS servers that you specify. It allows the reproducibility of those tests by anyone that wanted to compare these results to their own. All the tests results are available in order to provide independence and transparency.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:77 commits, 13 PRs, 69 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on automating and enhancing the project's testing and data gathering capabilities. They implemented a download speed test using a Bash script, created a Python script for cleaning IP addresses from logs, and developed another Python script to automate data gathering from logs. Additionally, the user added tests for web performance and open network ports, demonstrating a focus on automated testing and infrastructure monitoring.
testingansiblecomparisonprovidersspecify
joedicastro/code_eval
Jan 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:107 commits, 1 push in 4 years 2 months
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