About

Jorge de Castro is a skilled Tech Lead and Assistant Manager at Rakuten with over 3.78 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is currently leading the Tools & Solutions Team as an Ichiba Core Architect Section Tech Lead and Assistant Manager, managing a team of 10 members, including UX Designers and Frontend Engineers, with 4 members working from India. He is also responsible for managing a virtual team of 15 contributors from different disciplines, as a Manager of Frontend Trainings. Jorge's role as a Team Lead includes supporting the group manager with direction and decision making, aligning team direction, projects, and tasks with team members' growth plan, and providing regular feedback. He ensures consistent delivery based on high-quality standards and manages stakeholders effectively. As a Tech Lead, he guarantees systems' reliability, system design, tech stack direction, development and code review, tools management, and coaching and training. Jorge's achievements include increasing the number of trainings from 2 to 12 involving up to 15 passionate professionals from all within Rakuten, promoting Ichiba ReX Design System's mission, vision, and development, and creating a monorepository based on TS for backend and frontend development. He successfully released and maintained an internal CMS tool cutting operational costs and improving operation speed. In his previous role as a Senior Frontend Engineer at Rakuten, Jorge was responsible for building and maintaining Rakuten Ichiba, development of the in-house frontend framework, development of Ichiba ReX Design System, and creating and providing Frontend technologies trainings. He also built and managed a virtual team called Frontend Trainings Team to support professionals to create new trainings or contribute to existing ones regarding frontend technologies and design. Jorge's education background includes a Master of Information Technology Management IT MBA from Universidad Europea, Japanese Studies from Kai Japanese Language School (Tokyo), Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering (bilingual) from Universidad Europea, and Higher Technician in Computer Network Systems Management from Salesians de Sarrià. Jorge's tech stack includes Frontend, Senior Software Engineer, ReactJS, Redux, Backend, infra, AWS, and Web. His expertise and experience make him a valuable asset to any organization.