Nelson Castillo
Embedded Software Engineer at Verivolt
Bogota, Colombia
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Top SchoolNelson Castillo is an Embedded Software Engineer with 26 years of experience, currently designing firmware and API architectures at Verivolt from Bogotá, Colombia. He has a deep background across embedded Linux, low-level firmware, computer vision, and blockchain back-ends, with past roles at Google, AdMobilize, and startups he co-founded. Nelson combines systems-level engineering with practical product delivery—ranging from kernel work for Openmoko to cryptocurrency transaction analysis and ML model optimization. He’s comfortable both leading large operational efforts (splitting and transitioning a government-controlled utility) and shipping focused remote prototypes. Known for liking numbers, he brings a quantitative mindset to firmware reliability and model evaluation, often surfacing confidence intervals and metrics to guide decisions. His career blends hands-on technical depth with cross-domain curiosity and proven remote collaboration.
26 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Systems Engineering at Universidad del Magdalena
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (160)
geth10
creator10
protoc10
abi10
cpp10
p2p10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
golang10
qml10
protobuf10
slicer10
gcode10
serialization10
3d-printer10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
arhuaco/left_pad_cpp
Mar 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
HackBo/reflow_oven
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:64 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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