Jonathan Castillo

Jonathan Castillo is a student at Startup Institute

  Jonathan Castillo is coachable, creative, and determined. He's a fan of the NFL, enjoys reading, and loves to build things. Currently, Jonathan is attending Startup Institute where he's learning to build products as a student in the web development track. Prior to Startup Institute, Jonathan graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's in marketing and entrepreneurship. He supported himself through college by starting and operating his own business. Soon after graduating, Jonathan learned that his passion for building things could be realized through coding.

Software Engineer at Vestorly

October 2012 - May 2013

Backend web development using Ruby/Rails.

Co-Founder at Boston Nightlife Express

November 2011 - November 2012

Late-night shuttle bus for the college students around Boston. http://bnebus.com/

Aspiring Ruby Developer at Dev Bootcamp

February 2012 - March 2012

Eight-week intensive training program located in downtown San Francisco. We work sixty+ hours a week in an intimate class/lab setting and learn to build Ruby on Rails web applications.

Founder, President at College Getaways

August 2008 - December 2011

o Owned and operated sophomore-senior year of college. * Organize weekend excursions for over 600 college students residing in the Boston area. o Coordinate local transportation, short-term accommodation, and event access needs. o Negotiate pricing contracts with Hotel Sales Managers and club owners. * Build and manage team of campus representatives.

Co-Founder, CEO at ShareLI.com

August 2010 - February 2011

o Manage a virtual platform for businesses venturing into online marketing activities. o Negotiate collective buying deals with local businesses equaling 40%-90% off regular prices. o Communicate with Long Island business owners for special prices benefiting all clients. o Donate 5% of company sales toward local causes, such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Carol's Cause, and the Honeysuckle Foundation as part of our corporate social responsibility commitment.

Owner at Castillo Auctions

September 2005 - August 2008

o Provided in-person service to assist county residents sell personal and household items. o Sourced for marketable products by regularly perusing weekend garage sales. o Communicated profit potential of online selling to neighborhood residents. o Achieved eBay Redstar Achievement Award in recognition of over 1400 positive reviews from satisfied customers.

Student at Startup Institute

June 2013

Selected by Startup Institute in a highly competitive process to attend intensive training program focused on developing the core skills in web development to be a high impact employee at a startup. The web development track is taught by engineers in the New York startup community and focuses on working with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Git, TDD, RSpec, Cucumber, Javascript, jQuery, and AJAX.

Co-Founder at Regents Help

January 2012

Regents Help is the #1 online source for NYS Regents prep. Features video lessons, power-points, study guides, interactive flash cards, practice quizzes, and much more. http://RegentsHelp.com

Startup Institute

2013 – 2013

Web Development Track

Dev Bootcamp

2012 – 2012

World Class Beginner

Concentration: Ruby on Rails

Boston University - School of Management

2007 – 2011

BSBA

Concentration: Marketing & Entrepreneurship

East Meadow High School

Entrepreneurship, marketing, Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, NFL, NY Jets, reading.