\\ Cassandra Carey

Technology & media consultant and investor with specific focuses and expertise in artificial intelligence & applications, hardware design & manufacturing, cloud & hybrid infrastructure & architecture, video game design & engineering, media content authoring pipelines & workflows, startup bootstrapping, funding, & growth, team building & leadership, DEIB in tech & engineering, and system scaling & process automation.

Engineering Manager for the Backend team who are responsible for scaling the NexHealth platform for SaaS and API customers and their clients. Coordinating with leadership and major stakeholders across multi-domain projects. Handling planning and prioritization of long-term scaling and performance goals, along with feature implementation and addressing regressions, and balancing costs and P/L. Responsible for hiring backend engineers and SDETs. Ensuring my team was always set up for success to deliver world-class engineering solutions.

Contributor to Infrastructure-as-Code via Terraform/Packer against AWS and GCP for SaaS and on-site customer deployments. Migration work of application endpoints from Flask to FastAPI, addition of new and extension of existing endpoints and functionality. Designed and implemented the initial version of the unified Jobs endpoint for different models/data structures. Miscellaneous work and improvements to GitHub integrations and features.

Lead of the in-house machine learning platform. Primary/sole contributor and maintainer of the internal hybrid-cloud Machine/Deep Learning research platform (SaaS/PaaS: Rails/Python/JS). General Infra & DevOps development, upkeep, and support; management and development of the Organization's cloud solutions, build/automation CD/I pipelines, web properties/ecosystem, and services for Internal, B2B, and B2C endpoints. R&D proof-of-concept and platform engineering, data centers, and hardware. Worked with multiple teams/departments in Tracking, Engineering, QA, IT, Product, Marketing, and Sales across the Org in inter- and intra-departmental projects.

Co-primary manager, contributor, and maintainer of Internal hybrid-cloud pipelining ML/DL PaaS for Tracking Research and General Computation, Simulation, and Analysis. Full-stack development. Build (CD/I) pipelines. UX/I Design and Implementation. Dev-Ops. Cloud/AWS/Heroku. Python/Ruby/JavaScript/HTML+CSS, AngularJS, Shell/*Nix, Unity 3D, Photoshop.

Responsible for the day-to-day technical operations of Certification as well as the long-term strategic technical goals of the department. Coordinated general purpose and testing tools development. Performed testing data analytics and visualization and guided process improvement. Involved in additional projects across different departments.