Rafael Castillo
Software Engineer at Google
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Castillo is a software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on infrastructure, distributed systems, and Linux-oriented systems programming, currently building at Google out of Durham, NC. He brings a full-stack background from roles at Red Hat, Encora, and others, but is especially drawn to backend and infra challenges where understanding complex systems matters. An active open-source contributor, Rafael has improved UX on the popular osu! web app and enhanced resource handling and flexibility in the OpenStack SDK, demonstrating both frontend polish and deep backend API work. He enjoys working in open communities and tends to dig into large codebases to uncover how things work and how to make them more robust and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidad de Sonora
Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
openstack-sdk10
typescript10
client-library10
typescripts10
frontend10
resource-management10
python10
api-design10
react10
typescript-types10
webpages9
javascript9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstacksdk
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Unified SDK for OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily contributed to the openstacksdk project by modifying the `openstack/resource.py`, `openstack/identity/v3/project.py`, and `openstack/block_storage/v3/_proxy.py` files, along with corresponding test files. Their work focuses on enhancing the functionality of resource handling, specifically by allowing the inclusion of unknown attributes and using more detailed endpoints for fetching data. These changes improve the flexibility and data retrieval capabilities of the SDK.
opendevsdkopenstackclient-tools
ppy/osu-web
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
the browser-facing portion of osu!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the osu! web application. Their contributions include adding active classes to search boxes, allowing navigation in quick search with arrow keys, and modifying the typescript definitions. They also worked on hiding profile sections in the mobile navigation when logged out and fixing type definitions, showcasing a focus on user experience and code maintainability.
browserbackendfrontendosularavel
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