Email: casey@kolderup.org
What I'm Looking For
An opportunity to work as a product-focused engineer and senior member of your team, building new products, maintaining well-established ones, and understanding the business enough to provide technically-minded, user-aware insights to product managers and stakeholders. Read more on my hire me page!
Experience
(For more detail, read my online resume)
Fastly - Staff Engineer (2022-2025)
- acted as Glitch's tech lead during gaps in Engineering Management
- built integrations between Glitch's product and Fastly's core product offerings
- handled large-scale platform abuse
- worked with customer support to improve their processes & tooling
Glitch - Staff Engineer (2021-2022)
- helped prepare Glitch for acquisition
- helped do frontend redesign of a number of older features
- 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 to formalize front-line bug report triage and engineering-wide documentation
- 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 Engineer (2014-2020)
- supervised a team of four engineers formalizing the Developer Experience across dev, staging, and prod environments for all of engineering
- Established GraphQL at Vox Media, replacing the largest RESTful API
- Co-founded the Revenue Product team, where we built the initial version of the Concert ad marketplace and its associated tools
Earlier (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)
- Purdue University - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (2003-2007)
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