Mike Castro

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World-Class Full Stack Developer with 10+ years of experience

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Summary

Seasoned Developer with over 10 years of experience. Highly skilled in building scalable, cloud-native web platforms across fintech, marketing, and enterprise SaaS. Well-known for transforming complex business requirements into production-ready systems. Renowned for leading world-class engineering teams in delivering robust backends, intuitive frontends, and resilient infrastructure.

Key Accomplishments

  • Led the architecture and implementation of full-stack systems using Node.js and React, incorporating scalable backend design, modular frontend components, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Conducted code reviews, system audits, and developer mentoring in distributed teams across time zones, improving team velocity and code quality.
  • Built and maintained database schemas using PostgreSQL and MySQL, optimizing data flows, indexes, and migrations in performance-critical applications.

Recent Experience

Spike Up Media, LLC

Lead Full Stack DeveloperNov 2024Present

Los Angeles, CA, USA

  • Designed and built track.bankrolls.tools (event-tracker) from scratch using event-driven architecture, PostgreSQL, Elasticache, Redis, and AWS SQS
  • Led all project management efforts including estimation, technical scoping, business requirement alignment, stakeholder communication, and documentation

Asuene Inc.

Senior Full Stack DeveloperApr 2024Nov 2024

Tokyo, Japan

  • Water & Waste Emission Approval System: Led frontend and backend development for water and waste rejection workflows, including creation of reusable composables and end-to-end integration of rejection APIs
  • AI OCR Platform Enhancements: Spearheaded Gen 1 & Gen 2 AI OCR API integrations, implemented error handling with Slack notifications, file validation, retry logic

tsikot.com Inc.

CTO and Co-founderDec 2023May 2024

Baguio, Benguet, PH

  • Modernized a legacy automotive marketplace by upgrading Laravel from 4.2 to 10, and bringing WordPress and vBulletin components up to date
  • Containerized three core applications using Docker, streamlining deployment workflows and improving system maintainability

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