Juan Castillo

About Juan Castillo

Experience working in Real Estate, Insurance, Financial, Online Health and Warranty Business environments.Software professional with over 15 years of extensive experience in design, development, deployment, support and integration of multi-tier distributed systems and managing professional engineers. Internet/Intranet architecture design and development using component architecture and j2ee design patterns. Excellent Java development skills using J2EE, J2SE technologies. Extensive knowledge and experience with technologies such as Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Groovy, Javascript, XML/Parsers, VB.NET, REST style services, SOAP services, service based architecture. Knowledge of agile methodologies and tools such as: AngularJS, ReactJS, RabbitMQ, NodeJS, Python.Knowledge, management and implementation of various AWS services including IAM, Roles Anywhere, Cognito, Secrets Manager, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Cloudwatch, Cloud Trail, Pinpoint, API Gateway, S3 and Lambda.

Experience

1. AVP Development

   Bayview Asset Management, LLC

   Jun 2024 — Present · Coral Gables, FL, US

   Lead software engineering initiatives supporting the Commercial Servicing and Asset Management business units, managing backend, frontend, and DevOps teams responsible for business-critical applications.Manage a cross-functional team of engineers including Java backend developers, a frontend developer, and a DevOps organization of four near-shore engineers; recruited and hired a Lead DevOps Engineer to establish stronger operational leadership and team structure.Directed remediation of OWASP-identified vulnerabilities across team-owned applications, improving application security posture and secure development practices.Led the Java 21 upgrade initiative across 40+ service applications, improving platform maintainability, security compliance, and long-term supportability.Guided the engineering team in introducing a micro-frontend architecture, enabling modular UI development and faster feature delivery.Partnered with the DevOps Lead to design and implement an on-premise CI/CD pipeline leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins, and Bitbucket.Provided hands-on development leadership on strategic initiatives and new project development while overseeing delivery across multiple engineering teams.

Education

• Miami Dade College

  AA, Computer Engineering

  1996 — 1998

• Florida International University

  BS, Computer Engineering

  1998 — 2001

Skills

• Java Enterprise Edition
• Agile
• Avaya Aes
• Junit
• Css
• Node.js
• Mysql
• Tiles
• Avaya Ip Telephony
• Struts
• Shibboleth
• Oracle
• Sitemesh
• Sql Server
• Ejb
• Yui
• Maven2
• Weblogic
• Resteasy
• Ant
• Rest
• Mvc
• Groovy
• Jenkins
• Sdlc
• Angularjs
• Tortoise Svn
• Javascript
• Ajax
• Sql
• Linux
• Jaxb
• Grails
• Spring
• Maven
• Agile Methodologies
• Java
• Vb.net
• Git
• Microsoft Sql Server