Sebastian Castro
Chief Executive Officer at Backbone Ventures
United States
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Top SchoolSebastian Castro is a seasoned entrepreneur and CEO with over 15 years of hands-on experience building and scaling internet businesses, and more than two decades in the digital space. He has founded and led multiple ventures—from a high-traffic Spanish greeting card site that grew to 100K daily visitors and was acquired, to marketing and real-estate ventures—demonstrating strength in product-market fit and exit execution. As current CEO of Backbone Ventures, he blends executive leadership with technical fluency, having contributed to open-source Rails projects by improving JSON API support and test coverage. Based in the United States and trained in computer science, Sebastian combines operator instincts with a developer’s attention to detail, often stepping into code-level improvements that smooth integrations and APIs.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Information Tecnologies, Computer Science, Information Tecnologies at Universidad Abierta InteramericanaInstituto Tecnológico San Bonifacio
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Github Skills (7)
json10
rest-api10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
rspec9
xml7
html7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fatfreecrm/fat_free_crm
Nov 2011 - Nov 2011
Ruby on Rails CRM platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on adding JSON support to various controllers within the Ruby on Rails CRM platform. This involved modifying the `AccountsController`, `ApplicationController`, `CampaignsController`, `CommentsController`, `ContactsController`, `EmailsController`, `HomeController`, `LeadsController`, `OpportunitiesController`, `TasksController`, and `UsersController` to include JSON responses. Additionally, the user removed redundant `as_json` and `to_xml` calls, indicating a good understanding of Rails' default behavior. Finally, the user added specs for JSON responses in several controller spec files.
ruby-on-railscrm-platformrails-crmrailshotel-booking
sebicas/eos
Jun 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 2 months
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