\\ Cassandra Carey

Technology and engineering consultant with specialized expertise in artificial intelligence and impactful applications, cloud and hybrid infrastructure & systems architecture, video game design & production, media content pipelines & workflows, startup strategy & growth, team leadership, scalable software development, and process automation. Recognized for building empowered and successful engineering teams that drive innovation, deliver impactful solutions, and create diverse environments that foster inclusive collaboration and shared success.

Engineering Manager for the Backend team, responsible for scaling the NexHealth platform for SaaS and API customers and their clients. Coordinating with leadership and key stakeholders across multi-domain projects. Managing the planning and prioritization of long-term scaling, performance goals, feature implementation, and regression management, while balancing costs and profitability. Responsible for hiring backend engineers and SDETs. Ensuring my team is always set up for success to deliver world-class engineering solutions.

Contributed to Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and Packer for AWS and GCP, supporting SaaS and on-site customer deployments. Migrated application endpoints from Flask to FastAPI, added new endpoints, and extended existing ones. Designed and implemented the initial version of the unified Jobs endpoint for various models and data structures. Performed miscellaneous backend tasks and enhanced GitHub integrations and features.

Led the in-house machine learning platform. Served as the primary contributor and maintainer of the internal hybrid-cloud Machine/Deep Learning research platform (SaaS/PaaS: Rails/Python/JS). Managed overall infrastructure, DevOps development, maintenance, and support; handled the organization's cloud solutions, built and automated CI/CD pipelines, web properties, developer ecosystem, and services for internal, B2B, and B2C endpoints. Conducted R&D proof-of-concept and platform engineering, oversaw data center operations and hardware. Collaborated with multiple teams and departments across Tracking, Engineering, QA, IT, Product, Marketing, and Sales on both inter- and intra-departmental projects.

Co-primary manager, contributor, and maintainer of an internal hybrid-cloud ML/DL PaaS for tracking research, general computation, simulation, and analysis. Full-stack development. Build (CI/CD) pipelines. UX/UI design and implementation. DevOps. Cloud platforms, including AWS, GCP, and Heroku. Skills in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML+CSS, AngularJS, Shell/*Nix, Unity 3D, and Photoshop.

Responsible for the daily and long-term strategic technical operations and goals of Certification. Coordinated general-purpose and testing tools. Conducted testing, data analytics, and visualization, and guided process improvements. Miscellaneous projects across different departments.