Summary
Luis Castaneda is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience who designs and implements microservices that handle 90,000+ daily transactions at Grubhub. Grounded in a Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois Chicago, he specializes in building scalable, fault-tolerant systems using technologies like Linux, Kafka, Cassandra, and Java to ensure reliable enterprise integrations and merchant order delivery. He combines pragmatic engineering with an operational mindset, focusing on observability and resilience in distributed systems. Originally from the Caribbean and now based in Chicago via Indiana, he brings a cross-cultural perspective and pragmatic grit to large-scale backend challenges.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago