Rafael De Castro
FXGO Specialist at Bloomberg
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael De Castro is an FXGO Specialist at Bloomberg with a decade of experience blending finance-facing technology and systems programming. Comfortable across a wide language spectrum—from Rust, Haskell and OCaml to C++, Java and Swift—he brings low-level, functional-programming and tooling expertise to trading and corporate sales environments. His background includes hands-on production support and automation at Morgan Stanley and demand-generation work at AWS, plus recent FX corporate sales experience at Deutsche Bank, giving him a rare mix of trading desk operations and developer-first thinking. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed Conan package recipes to the widely used conan-center-index, demonstrating attention to build systems, portability and C++ standards. Based in São Paulo and studying Computer and Information Systems at USP, he pairs rigorous academic grounding with practical cross-domain engineering applied to finance.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (10)
cpp-library10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
package-management10
conan10
dependency-analysis9
cmake9
dependency-manager9
dependency-management9
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
conan-io/conan-center-index
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 8 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily contributed to the development of recipes within the ConanCenter repository. They created new recipes for libraries like "absent" and "kitten," which involved writing Conanfiles and test packages. The user refactored existing recipes, fixed build issues, and updated dependencies to ensure compatibility with specific compilers. They also implemented checks for C++17 support and added project descriptions.
dependenciescpprecipespackage-managerconan-recipe
rvarago/tokio-util-codec-compose
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Building blocks for composing tokio-util codecs
Contributions:5 PRs, 42 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 10 months
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