Resume

Contact Details

You can email me at casey@kolderup.org. If you explain in that email what you're looking for, I'm generally happy to provide more synchronous forms of communication like a phone/SMS number or details for apps like Signal.

What I'm Looking For

An opportunity to work as a product-focused engineer and senior member of your engineering staff, prototyping new products, maintaining well-established ones, and understanding the business enough to provide technically-minded, user-aware insights to product managers and stakeholders. I want to give your team what it needs: the vibe-improver, the engineer who will actually attend your meetings, the green-field prototyper, the incident manager, or the slightly annoying person you know is right about ethics and user focus. I want to help you make the right decisions that will help you today and also avoid a lot of pain six months from now. Read more on my website!

Recent Experience

Fastly - Staff Engineer 2022-2025

• acted as Glitch's tech lead during two different periods where there was no official Engineering Manager assigned to the team
• built Fastly API key integration into Glitch Editor
• wrote technical recommendations on the potential use of software like Nix, git, and the ActivityPub protocol to internally proposed evolutions of Glitch's platform
• led multiple efforts to rid the Glitch platform of bad actors / unwanted user-generated content: identifying, investigating, educating the team, and building & maintaining automated tools to reduce its harm
• built an event-based Webhooks feature on the Glitch platform
• built "external projects", allowing Glitch users to expand their user profiles to showcase projects built elsewhere on the web
• provided guidance to our Customer Support team navigating users' technical questions and needs and improving the tools they used to manage abuse, user subscriptions
• mentored interns assigned to Glitch as part of Fastly's internship program
• acted as the engineering lead for the planning of Glitch's shutdown, advocating for user benefit and data access within the constraints of the timeline & budget needs presented to us

Glitch - Staff Engineer 2021-2022

• helped prepare Glitch for acquisition, including providing information for due diligence
• demonstrated the platform's use as a demo and educational platform for acquisition targets' software offerings
• wrote most of the code involved for a feature redesign from "Collections" to "Playlists"
• assisted in frontend work to refresh design of user profiles & project detail pages
• learned Glitch's backend and collaborated with a consultancy on "crisis engineering" scenarios, refreshed runbooks, and prepared for SRE work required pre-acquisition
• acquired by Fastly May 2022

Discogs - Engineering Lead 2020-2021

• led a team of 3 engineers, formalizing their intake/triage process and working with them to outline & execute a process for revamping technical documentation and knowledge sharing within the company
• consulted with a committee of other tech leads to plan the future of technical architecture for the overall systems that make up Discogs' operations

Vox Media - Engineering Manager / Senior Full Stack Engineer, various teams 2014-2020

• supervised a team of four engineers formalizing the Developer Experience, providing all of Vox Media Engineering with their local development (Docker), sandbox (k8s), staging (k8s), and CI/test (Github Actions) environments
• Architected the first version of a new editorial storytelling framework, enabling editorial developers to fetch structured data written by journalists in the existing CMS
• Established GraphQL at Vox Media by replacing the largest RESTful API, writing standards & best practices, building a central service that can call out to federated GraphQL servers, and training engineering teams on the new infrastructure
• Co-founded the Revenue Product team, where we migrated all of Vox Media's advertising from OpenX to Google Ads, separated the display ad infrastructure from the backend and made it possible to sell & operate ads on any website (https://concert.io)

Earlier Work (further details available on request)

• Gilt - Senior Software Engineer, Platforms 2011-2014
• FactSet - Senior Software Engineer, Content Integration 2007-2011
• Delphi-Delco - Software Engineer, Automation & Verification 2004-2007

Education

• Bachelor of Science, Purdue University (2003-2007)
  • Major: Computer Science, Minor: Mathematics

Some Proper Nouns I Have Professional Opinions About

• TypeScript, Node.js, JavaScript, React
• Ruby, Java, Scala, C++, Perl
• REST APIs, OpenAPI, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, Redis
• Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Github Actions, Jenkins, Circle CI
• Grafana, Kibana, Consul, Metabase, Sentry