Casey Watts
Staff Frontend Engineer at Empathy in Tech
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolCasey Watts is a staff frontend engineer and organizational-effectiveness consultant known for turning teams into the happy, effective unit through coaching and workshops. With 15 years across product management, engineering management, and hands-on engineering at companies including Heroku, USCIS, Yale IT, and startups, he blends technical leadership with people-first approaches. He leverages a background in psychology and authored "Debugging Your Brain," applying psychological safety, DEI, and CBT/DBT concepts to engineering culture and outcomes. He leads Happy and Effective as a consulting practice and co-founded Empathy in Tech to spread empathy as a learnable skill, while also directing education initiatives at Baltimore Musical Improv and coordinating nonprofit tech efforts with Ruby for Good. Currently a Staff Frontend Engineer at the Maryland Department of Labor, he combines front-end excellence with strategic alignment, mentoring teams to deliver impactful software while fostering joy at work.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Psychology at Yale UniversityCertificate, Computer Programming, Certificate, Computer Programming at The Community College of Baltimore County
Spanish, Sign languages, Chinese
Github Skills (200)
gist10
javascript-framework10
chartjs-plugin10
web-development10
tiddlywiki510
web-applications10
ember-js10
docx10
whiteboard10
text-editing10
multiplayer10
stackedit10
zendesk10
origami10
emberjs10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
learnshinythings/learnshinythings.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
caseywatts/dctechslack.com
Feb 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
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