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California, United States

Fremont, California, Us

Fremont, California, Us

Building an AI financial advisorhttps://x.com/CastelloAi/status/1839423898158551125

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Scaled to 100k+ users, millions of dollars in transactions• Built backend and DevOps architecture from scratch using Typescript, Mongo, Redis, NGINX, K8s, GCP• Hired over a dozen employees and interns• Managed software teams• Built product, roadmap & company processes• Assisted in fundraising

Toronto, On, Ca

Named as one of Canada's Next 36 Entrepreneurial Leaders

• Lead a team of 6 engineers to build an AI-based learning web platform for IBM. I setup our Kubernetes infrastructure and wrote 75% of the backend micro services.• Assessed dozens of software engineering intern candidates. 8 candidates were hired by my recommendation.• Ran monthly workshops (5-15 employees) on Node.js, Docker and Kubernetes.• Built a blockchain-based license procurement web application. I wrote the core REST APIs in Node.js and aided in setting up the blockchain transactions using web3.js.• Only intern allowed to provision and manage VMs in our supercomputer cluster.

Kingston, Ontario, Ca

Led backend development for InField ID (agrotech startup). • Built the core application to easily identify pests and invasive species on crops using visual recognition.• Company pivoted to a video consultation platform, connecting farmers to specialists. Built the APIs and backend services for the new application.

Kingston, On, Ca

Provided mentorship, project management and evaluations for 3 teams of 5 Engineering students for their Engineering Practice and Design project. The project required developing a mobile application for patients suffering from osteoporosis to accurately track daily nutrient intake as well as exercise for a local physiotherapy clinic.

Kingston, On, Ca

Supported an Associate Dean and an Engineering Professor to re-design the first year Engineering Lab Experiment course.Rehired part-time in Summer 2018 to aid in further redesign of the course.