Miguel Castro
Ruskin
Summary
Accomplished Software Engineer in the business since 1986. Specializing in Application Architecture and Extensible software design. Proven success in designing scalable and extensible solutions that enhance developer efficiency.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
TekSavvy Solutions
Ruskin, FL
02.2012 - 12.2026
- Architected & developed scalable and extensible developer productivity solutions using .NET and JavaScript to enhance developer efficiency when building company software.
- Collaborated with others in order to provide the entire solution from design to deployment and everything in between.
- Designed architecture for many applications, ensuring scalability, extensibility, and maintainability.
- Worked with users to ensure products were easy to use while ensuring they were feature-rich.
- Developed reusable tools & components that assisted reduced development efforts on multiple projects.
- Architected & developed fully a automated system to handle many daily repetitive manual accounting tasks.
- Architected & developed many products through the years, focusing on developer productivity and consumption by other company software.
Course Author
Pluralsight
Ruskin, FL
01.2015 - 10.2019
Authored several courses for a leading online course provider. Courses include:
- Building End-to-End Multi-Client Service Oriented Applications
- Building End-to-End Multi-Client Service Oriented Applications - Angular Edition
- Developing Extensible Software
- WCF End-to-End
- WCF Power Topics
- Integrating Autofac into ASP.NET
- Developing AngularJS Component-based Appliations
4 of these made it to #1 in the ranking list.
All were in the top 10 for some time.
Senior Software Developer
Perkin Elmer
Shelton, CT And Remote
01.2013 - 10.2014
- Was part of a two-man team developing a big WPF desktop application to manage hardware devices to perform chemical analyses.
- Designed & developed a custom made validation engine for use in the main product (above).
- Designed & developed a full MVVM framework for use in the WPF application I participated in.
Software Engineering Consultant
IDesign
Traveling
10.2010 - 04.2014
Performed architecture consulting and training classes for various companies domestic and international. Among which are:
- Bank of International Settlements - Basel, Switzerland
- AddSkills - Stockholm, Sweden
- REI - Seattle, WA
- Ropes & Grey - Boston, MA
- UCSB - Santa Barbara, CA
Education
Associate of Arts - Computer Science
Miami Dade College
06-1987
Skills
- Application Architecture
- NET C#
- Specialize in Extensibility Design
- Web technologies including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- AI LLM API integration
- Multiple JS libraries and frameworks
- Service Oriented Architecture & development
- DDD
- SQL
- Microservice Architecture
- Agile methodologies
- API development
- Techinical documentation
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Portuguese
Professional Working
Timeline
Course Author
Pluralsight
01.2015 - 10.2019
Senior Software Developer
Perkin Elmer
01.2013 - 10.2014
Software Engineer
TekSavvy Solutions
02.2012 - 12.2026
Software Engineering Consultant
IDesign
10.2010 - 04.2014
Associate of Arts - Computer Science
Miami Dade College
Microsoft MVP for 16 years
I was awarded Microsoft MVP for the first time in 2005 and maintained it for 16 years running through community contributions, publications, and multiple public speaking engagements.
Publications & Presentations
Regular contributor to CODE Magazine for several years.
Speaker at multiple user groups and conferences both domestic and international, including:
- VSLive - all over US
- DevConnections - all over US
- DevIntersections - all over US
- Techorama - Antwerp, Belgium
- Codestock - Kocksville, TN
- DevSum - Stockholm, Sweden
- NDC - Oslo, Norway & London, England
- DevTeach, Monteral and BC, Canada
- DevReach - Sofia, Bulgaria
- SDC, Amsterdamn, Netherlands