OMAR CASTRO

• Backend Transformation & Performance: Lead the migration from legacy to modern permission service by refactoring Java code and optimizing permission cache performance.

• Database Engineering: Spearhead database creation, updates, and schema management across PostgreSQL and MongoDB using Liquibase.

• Standards & Best Practices: Standardize testing frameworks, documentation, and coding practices—recognized via promotion for excellence in quality engineering.

• Technical Leadership: Serve as the backend Technical Lead for the Platform and Concurrency teams, mentoring engineers and driving strategic development initiatives.

• Concurrency Implementation: Co-lead the development and rollout of Concurrency functionality for our CDP, enhancing system performance and scalability.

• Collaborative Agile Practices: Partner with QA to develop test cases, participate in backlog grooming and sprint planning, and conduct rigorous code reviews.

• Innovation & Production Support: Evaluate alternative solutions and propose new designs while addressing production issues and supporting client needs.

• Microservices & Data Pipelines: Architected exposure and aggregation microservices with Spring Boot, and developed Apache Beam pipelines for efficient data streaming and enrichment between Kafka and CassandraDB.

• Cloud Deployment Excellence: Managed seamless deployments of microservices and data pipelines to Google Cloud Platform, ensuring robust scalability and performance.

• Architectural Leadership: Designed, implemented, and documented detailed architectural blueprints, workflows, and API specifications to drive platform consistency.

• Team Mentorship & Agile Collaboration: Led and mentored a team of four developers while converting high-level business requirements into actionable technical stories, fostering agile practices.

• Code Quality & Process Optimization: Conducted thorough code reviews, refactored listeners for parallel processing of enrichments, and implemented automated testing in release pipelines.

• Proactive Production Support: Resolved critical bugs across development environments and provided on-call support to maintain production stability.