Samuel Castaneda
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Experience
Software Engineer, Accesso, Orlando FL (since November 2014)
Develop and maintain Software for Ticketing Solutions in Java. Focused on the payment solution. Part of the Core Development Team.
Projects: Shift4 Integration (Credit Card Tokenization), Ingenico Collect Integration
Full Stack Developer, Bold Technologies LLC, Orlando FL, (Oct ’12 – Sep ’14)
Team Leader on Services Projects. Went from Intern to Full-stack Developer in 6 Months (replacing Lead-developer). Full Stack development in Node.js + Express.js + MongoDB, PHP + MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, LESS-CSS, Parse (BaaS). Trained several interns in above mentioned technologies since January, 2014.
Co-Founder, Castaneda & Booth Industries LLC, Orlando FL, (July ’13 – Dec ’14)
Developing web (PHP & Node.js) applications. Completed a Customer Relationship Manager(CRM) for United Water Restoration Group in PHP. Currently working on a Kickstarter Project.
Software Tester, Harrington Group, Orlando FL (April 2012 – October 2012)
Tested all applications and wrote a 30+ page test plan for future use.
Tools and Technologies
LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
PHP Frameworks: Zend, codeigniter
MongoDB + Mongoose, Express.js, Node.js
HTML, CSS + Less, Javascript + JQuery
Java, C, Python
Git, Linux, Terminal
Education
University of Central Florida
B.S. Computer Science
Graduation date: Fall 2014
Member of Computer Science Honor Society (UPE) since Spring 2013.
Coursework Worth Mentioning
Systems Software – wrote a compiler including: scanner, parser, intermediate code generator, and a VM with 23 instructions
Machine Learning (graduate course) – KNN, Naive Bayes
Artificial Intelligence – NLP, Knowledge-based Systems, Ontologies, Assignments in Common Lisp
Programming Languages – learned Lambda Calculus, Scheme(Racket), Haskell
Processes for Object-Oriented Dev – Team Leader, collaboration on a software project: https://github.com/SCastaneda/pathfinder
Interests
Web Development, Machine Learning, Quadcopters. Thrives on Learning Technologies. Reader of Hacker News.