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ccastedo

I design and build cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and developer tooling that scale. I'm also building a multiplatform application for Android and iOS.

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Cloud Migration Platform

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Designed and led the migration of a monolithic on-premise application to a cloud-native microservices architecture on AWS, serving 2M+ users.

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Internal Developer Platform

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Built a self-service developer platform reducing time-to-first-commit from 2 weeks to under 1 hour for 200+ engineers.

Platform EngineeringDockerGoBackstageArgoCD

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API Gateway Redesign

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Redesigned the API gateway layer to support 10x traffic growth with improved observability and rate limiting.

API DesignEnvoygRPCRedisOpenTelemetry

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Jul 10, 2026Cloud Migration Platform

Rolling out distributed tracing for the Cloud Migration Platform

Integrated OpenTelemetry across all services in the Cloud Migration Platform. We're now collecting traces end-to-end from the API gateway down to the database layer.

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Jul 5, 2026Thought

Why I've stopped enforcing unit test coverage thresholds

After years of pushing for 80% coverage, I've changed my mind. Here's the reasoning that got me there.

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Jun 28, 2026Internal Developer Platform

Internal Developer Platform v2: Custom Backstage plugins

Shipped three new Backstage plugins for our IDP: automated environment provisioning, cost dashboards, and a service dependency graph.

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