Richard Castera
Senior Software Engineer (SMTS) at Salesforce
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Castera is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and shipping high-performance, design-conscious mobile and web applications, currently driving microservices and API development at Salesforce Marketing Cloud. He blends backend and frontend expertise—PHP/Java microservices, Node.js, MongoDB and modern JS frameworks—with a strong focus on testing, observability (Splunk dashboards/alerts) and SLA-driven reliability. Richard has led engineering teams, upgraded legacy stacks (PHP5→7, Symfony), integrated major social and ad platforms, and mentored junior engineers while serving as scrum master and technical lead. Comfortable across the full stack, he also brings product-minded experience from roles building payment and CMS integrations, PCI compliance, and high-traffic, mobile-friendly sites. Notably, he pairs hands-on coding with operational ownership, creating automated test coverage and proactive monitoring to minimize customer impact.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Queensborough Community CollegeDiploma in Computer Programming, Diploma in Computer Programming at The Chubb Institute of Technology
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (32)
tokenize10
objective-c10
twitter10
emoji10
java10
ruby10
unicode10
nodejs10
tweet10
google-api7
google-api-client7
e-mail6
cordova-plugin6
curl6
php6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rcastera/Paypal-PayFlow-API-Wrapper-Class
Jan 2011 - Oct 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 6 years 10 months
apiclass-abstractionpaypalpayflowabstraction
rcastera/Session-Class
Dec 2010 - Sep 2013
Working with sessions - easily time-out your authenticated users after a specified interval
Contributions:6 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 2 years 9 months
intervalauthenticatedtime-out
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