Manuel Castro
Manager Sr Developer at Self-employed
Costa Rica
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Top SchoolManuel Castro is a Senior Frontend Developer and Agile team lead from Costa Rica with nearly a decade of experience building responsive, high-performance SPAs for finance, healthcare, and insurance. He specializes in Angular and TypeScript, with strong skills in RxJS, SCSS, accessibility (WCAG), and performance optimization, and has modernized legacy codebases through lazy loading and modular architecture. Manuel has led distributed teams of 2–9 people across onshore/offshore setups, shipping startup MVPs end-to-end and maintaining enterprise-grade applications at Publicis Sapient. He pairs hands-on implementation with product-minded leadership—translating business needs into UX flows while mentoring junior engineers and teaching frontend courses. His open-source contributions include modularizing AngularJS UI components for the widely used ORCID project, reflecting an emphasis on maintainability and testability. Comfortable in fast-paced Agile environments, he excels at delivering clean, scalable frontends that prioritize accessibility and user performance.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachiller, Ciencias de la Computación e Informática, Bachiller, Ciencias de la Computación e Informática at Universidad de Costa Rica
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
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javascript10
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ui-design10
angularjs10
directive9
directives9
webpack8
webpacker8
css7
html7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
ORCID/ORCID-Source
Dec 2016 - Jul 2018
ORCID Open Source Project
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 266 PRs, 445 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily focused on front-end development, with commits involving the modification and division of JavaScript files, specifically within the context of AngularJS (ng1Orcid). The changes indicate an effort to modularize the code, likely for improved maintainability and testing with tools like Webpack. The user also worked on directives related to modal components and UI resizing, showcasing a focus on user interface elements and behavior.
orcidjavajavascriptorcid-sourcespring-web-mvc
mjcalvo69/thinterview
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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