Rafael De Castro
Staff Engineer at Amenitiz
Gijón, Asturias, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael De Castro is a Staff Engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in developer experience, platform engineering, and guiding teams through technical and cultural transformations. Based in Gijón, Asturias, he helps companies evolve from monoliths to scalable microservices while preserving strong, human-centered engineering cultures. He has led infrastructure and developer-experience organizations, driving automation, Kubernetes adoption, and measurable improvements in deployment frequency and mean time to resolution. A developer advocate at heart, Rafael builds tooling and practices that reduce friction for engineers and sustain rapid growth without accruing crippling technical debt. Outside work he’s a “happy hacker,” runs the quirky repo/site evilmeow.com, and balances deep technical focus with life as a father of three.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidad de OviedoMaster's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (94)
mvc10
ruby10
scheduling10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
html10
kubernetes10
del10
rails10
go10
roman-numerals10
docker10
mesos9
pixelfed9
sdk9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rafadc/talk_metrics
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:40 commits in 7 months
rafadc/cookiecutter-ruby-console
Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
Cookiecutter Ruby template for a console project
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 8 months
cookiecutterrubyconsole
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