Luis Casillas

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Software Engineer at Progreso Financiero

Technology / Software / Internet

Goal: to perform the hard task of finding easy solutions for hard problems. Rinse and repeat. My approach to software isn't just to write a program to solve the problem at hand, but to write tools that solve the whole family of problems that are just like the one at hand. This has led me to successfully put into practice techniques like functional programming and embedded domain specific languages. I am also adept at explaining technology to newcomers, and I am a Top 3% contributor to Stack Overflow for 2013 (as of July 2013). In my spare time I collect and research antique American pocket watches, particularly from the Elgin National Watch Company, and I have started giving public p...