Alejandro Castro Solano

LogicBison

Self-employed · Full-time · San José, Costa Rica · Remote across the Americas

• Run an independent software architecture practice and product studio focused on payment, finance, and operations platforms.
• Offer fractional CTO support and fixed-price, milestone-gated platform builds: scope definition, deposit structure, and delivery gates that reduce launch risk from vague requirements and weak UAT.
• Designed and built platform components spanning CRM, project tracking, ticketing, financial tracking, and real-time data ingestion (Node.js, React, Next.js, Python, CouchDB, Docker).
• Advise on build vs rent: keep commodity layers (payments, identity) rented; build systems of record and workflows where off-the-shelf SaaS cannot fit client data or process reality.

SSRI S.A.

Full-time · San José, Costa Rica

• Hired to create a new department specialized in accounting and financial systems; built and led a team of 5–8 engineers, owning delivery quality, team output, and client outcomes.
• Architected and delivered a credit-card statement generation system for a Panama-based issuer: cross-border architecture (desktop client with database hosted in Costa Rica); stable in production since 2017 with minimal maintenance.

San José, Costa Rica

• Designed an e-commerce platform for an online gaming company and led a distributed team of 9 developers (5 local, 4 in India) through delivery, coordinating parallel workstreams across time zones.
• Built an Android gaming application (Java / Android SDK, MS SQL Server backend).
• Delivered web platforms for online gaming, e-commerce, and crypto exchange clients.
• Built a Hyper-V corporate virtualization management platform (web + desktop C#, PowerShell, MySQL, remote APIs, embedded local DB) for on-demand licensed VM provisioning and management.

GBS Corporation

San José, Costa Rica

• Owned all e-commerce and payments software end-to-end: database design, application architecture, UI, and management of a development team of 5–8.
• Held full ownership of payment gateway operations during the company's highest-growth period: 100+ gateway integrations and responsibility for hundreds of millions of USD in incoming transactions.
• Designed and operated a multi-tenant e-commerce and payment processing platform (2002–2008) rented to international companies (.NET / C#, SQL Server, web services / REST).
• Established production processes and tooling across Agile/Scrum-oriented delivery; hired and developed engineering talent for sustained product ownership.

Graphicom Soluciones S.A.

San José, Costa Rica

• Founded and ran a software, web, and design studio with a 6-member team, serving institutional clients including Correos de Costa Rica and Universidad de Costa Rica, plus private-sector platforms (PHP/ASP) and international companies.
• Delivered graphic design, publishing, and 3D/gaming projects alongside software work, covering the full path from brand and visuals to working application.

Earlier Career

CINDE · CAATEC · EKA Consultores · Garnier PR · Avant Garde de San José · Procesadora de Datos de Costa Rica

• Supervised a 20-person data-processing team at Procesadora de Datos de Costa Rica (1990–1991).
• Founded Avant Garde de San José (design + programming, 1994–1995).
• Delivered national institutional web projects, including the Costa Rica e-Readiness project (CAATEC) and CINDE sites (PHP/ASP); built database applications for legal, PR, and consulting clients.