Summary
Roger Castilla is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack SaaS platforms and modern UI architectures, currently at Palo Alto Networks after a multi-year tenure at Venafi/CyberArk. He combines strong front-end leadership in React and Micro Frontends with back-end contributions in Java and Go, and has driven adoption of GraphQL and MUI across platform services. Roger has practical DevOps and CI/CD experience—designing pipelines, automating deployments, and modernizing legacy builds—which helped scale products beyond the US via tenant-aware routing and personalized URLs. His background includes applied machine learning research on wearable IoT at Texas A&M, giving him a measured interest in ML-informed product features. Colleagues rely on him to bridge UX, platform architecture, and backend services while shipping production-ready, cross-team solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan
English, Spanish