Luis Castaneda
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Castaneda is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience who designs and implements microservices that handle 90,000+ daily transactions at Grubhub. Grounded in a Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois Chicago, he specializes in building scalable, fault-tolerant systems using technologies like Linux, Kafka, Cassandra, and Java to ensure reliable enterprise integrations and merchant order delivery. He combines pragmatic engineering with an operational mindset, focusing on observability and resilience in distributed systems. Originally from the Caribbean and now based in Chicago via Indiana, he brings a cross-cultural perspective and pragmatic grit to large-scale backend challenges.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
Github Skills (18)
browser-extension10
safari10
firefox10
chrome10
webextension10
cli10
electron9
javascript9
typescript9
nodejs9
angular9
laravel6
speedtest6
atom-plugin5
docker5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lmcastaneda/homelab
Jan 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
lmcastaneda/lmcastaneda.github.io
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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