Jose Castillo
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJose Castillo is a software engineer with 10 years’ experience building distributed, data-intensive backends and low-latency streaming platforms. Currently at Datadog, he focuses on delivering SQL-like simplicity with millisecond latency over large, continuously changing datasets. His background includes marketplace intelligence work at Uber and event-sourced, CQRS-driven microservices at Jet, where he applied functional programming (F#) and event stores alongside Kafka and Azure. Comfortable across JVM, Python, and functional stacks, he favors pragmatic designs that balance scalability, resilience, and operational simplicity. A strong academic record (BS and MS) underpins his practical engineering instincts and his enthusiasm for functional programming and distributed computing often informs architectural choices that reduce complexity in production.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.76/4.0, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.76/4.0 at Universidad del ZuliaMaster's Degree, 3.92/4, Master's Degree, 3.92/4 at Florida International University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
data-structures6
java6
sicp5
cracking5
algorithms4
cpp3
monitoring3
collector3
system-information2
golang2
linux2
go2
rocksdb2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
castjosem/MorseSMS
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
castjosem/moodsical
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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