Hello,
I'm Casey Key, the Founding Engineer & Systems Architect.
Focused on...
- Build modern web applications with TypeScript and React.
- Design scalable RESTful APIs and GraphQL services with Node.js.
- Develop production backends with Django and Python.
- Build native iOS applications with Swift.
- Implement version control and collaborative workflows with Git.
- Build and train production ML models with PyTorch and TensorFlow.
- Implement end-to-end ML pipelines with scikit-learn.
- Deploy ML services with FastAPI and Docker.
- Architect agentic workflows for full-cycle development from PRD to production.
- Build multi-modal AI with fine-tuned LLMs, LoRA, and RAG.
- Architect cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and GCP.
- Build CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
- Containerize and orchestrate applications with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Scaling reliability through automated observability and SLA-driven response.
- Automate infrastructure and systems with Terraform and Bash scripting.
Core Expertise
Bridging the gap between complex technical architecture and scalable business solutions.
Full Stack Engineering
Machine Learning Engineering
Cloud & DevOps
Professional Journey
Engineering scalable systems, high-availability cloud solutions, and technical leadership.
2024
Oracle
Redwood Shores, CAApplications Developer
- Built and launched a scalable release management tool supporting 13780 users with high reliability.
- Mentored new developers, facilitating knowledge transfer and collaborative problem‑solving.
- Implemented AI‑powered automation to optimize DevOps workflows and artifact management.
- Led onboarding and support for users, resolving bugs, gathering feedback, and refining key features.
- Efficiently ingested data sources with Python, DRF, and Celery for asynchronous data processing.
2022
Amazon
Santa Monica, CASoftware Development Engineer
- Designed efficient bulk registration features for large‑scale data ingestion pipelines.
- Developed and optimized C++ and Python‑based APIs for large‑scale data catalog systems.
- Led junior developers by sharing context, reviewing code, and guiding contributions.
- Delivered flexible CI/CD pipelines with approvals, tests, rollbacks, and branch deployments.
- Worked closely with product and UX teams to refine UI behavior for React-based applications.
- Managed infrastructure security and scalability using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and SAM.
2021
Capital One
RemoteSenior Associate Software Engineer
- Accelerated dataset registration by developing a Chrome extension to enforce metadata compliance.
- Improved file transfer efficiency by designing a self‑service data streaming and processing pipeline.
- Enhanced real‑time analytics by implementing multithreading for Kafka stream processing.
2020
Amazon Web Services
RemoteAssociate Cloud Consultant
- Architected self-service WorkSpace solution to reduce end-user's procurement time by 85%.
- Satisfied customer requests for highly available RESTful services after project demos.
2019
Bongo
Loveland, CODevOps Engineer
- Built custom monitors to fortify web application's live audio infrastructure.
- Automated hundreds of end-to-end React user interface tests with Ruby, Capybara, and Jenkins.
2019
Oracle
Reston, VACloud Solutions Engineer
- Built business intelligence dashboards for optimizing five revenue streams.
- Analyzed Tweets and News outlets for live analysis using Python.
- Maximized application availability by automating deployment to Oracle Cloud.
2019
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, COTeaching Assistant
- Lead over 100 students through the fundamentals of Python.
- Reviewed and revised curriculum for teaching Python to non-technical majors.
2018
Northrop Grumman STEM Camp
Denver, COStudent Instructor
- Built a project based Python programming curriculum focused on gaming and security.
- Taught 10 high school students Python object-oriented programming.
- Released a blog covering the curriculum.
Featured Work
Highlighted projects from my portfolio.
Spirit Beads
E-Commerce
live
Oracle Release Management
Applications Developer 2
launched
Amazon.com Data Catalog
Software Development Engineer
launched