Freelance marketplace for ALTEN Group's engineering and consulting projects
Castor Network is a project marketplace operated by ALTEN Group—a European engineering and consulting firm active across 35,000+ concurrent engagements in 25+ countries. The platform connects freelance engineers to ALTEN's portfolio of industrial, aerospace, cloud, and manufacturing projects. The tech stack is heavily Java/Spring backend with Vue/Angular frontends, deployed on AWS and Azure; the hiring profile is senior-weighted (13 of 19 active roles) and engineering-focused (15 of 19), signaling rapid scaling of delivery capacity for a growing client backlog.
Notable leadership hires: Tech Lead
Castor Network operates as the freelance engagement platform for ALTEN Group, one of Europe's largest engineering and consulting organizations. The company facilitates connections between independent engineers and ALTEN's client projects spanning industrial automation, aerospace systems, cloud infrastructure, and energy sectors. The platform spans France and international markets, serving as both a project-matching tool and a community hub for freelance technologists. Current project activity includes cloud migrations, aircraft electrical architecture design, automation feasibility studies, and production deployment workflows. The organization runs lean (2–10 employees) while managing a distributed network of external contributors.
Primary: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Vue, Angular, Git. Cloud infrastructure on AWS (Lambda, Glue, CDK) and Azure (Data Lake Storage, Data Factory). Data processing via Databricks, PySpark, Hadoop. CI/CD: GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Jenkins. Project tools: Jira, Confluence, Artifactory.
Active projects span cloud migration (AWS), aircraft electrical architecture, industrial automation, safety/compliance analysis (EMI/EMC qualification), and production deployment. Challenges include deployment industrialization, requirements traceability, and complex project coordination.
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