Richard Castro
Member Of Technical Staff at Tailscale
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Castro is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems across startups and large platforms, currently contributing as a Member of Technical Staff at Tailscale in Pasadena. He has driven features and governance for consumer-facing web properties at Uber and helped ship learning tools at Twitter, blending front-end product work with backend reliability. Early roles in BI, IT operations, and security at Dimensional Insight and UCSD give him a strong grounding in data integrity, incident troubleshooting, and customer-facing support. Known for navigating complex organizational environments, he often bridges product, ops, and engineering to translate ambiguous requirements into maintainable systems. Outside core engineering, he has a track record of mentoring and teaching—from UCSD CSE tutoring to internal knowledge sharing—reflecting a continual focus on practical learning and team enablement.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (11)
privacy10
vpn10
oauth10
wireguard10
tailscale10
security10
flutter2
meteor-client2
python2
meteor1
bootstrap1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rscastro/wayd
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:22 pushes, 15 branches in 15 days
radical-chamomile/dinner-rev-OOOOO-lution
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:29 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 days
flutterpythonbuydinner
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