Summary
Santiago Castillo is a backend-focused software engineer with six years of experience building scalable user applications, primarily using Ruby and Ruby on Rails. He has shipped services for industries such as online payments and trading at Endava and now contributes to backend work at Encora, bringing practical experience with Docker-based multi-service development environments. Comfortable in agile teams (Scrum and Kanban), he’s worked across startups, game studios, and outsourced teams, and actively participates in knowledge-sharing communities. Santiago pairs solid engineering fundamentals from Holberton School and Universidad Nacional de Colombia with hands-on deployment experience (Heroku, containerized workflows). Colleagues know him as a collaborative team player who enjoys mentoring and improving team practices beyond code.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Grado en Ingeniería, Ingeniería de software, Ingeniero de Sistemas y Computacion, Grado en Ingeniería, Ingeniería de software, Ingeniero de Sistemas y Computacion at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Full Stack Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineering, Training as Software Engineer, Full Stack Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineering, Training as Software Engineer at Holberton School
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Multimedia engineer, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Multimedia engineer at Universidad de San Buenaventura