Eric Cassady
Architect at AffiniPay
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Cassady is a seasoned software architect and leader with more than two decades of experience guiding teams to deliver scalable, high-quality software across finance, IoT, and cloud platforms. He blends hands-on engineering with organizational leadership, championing a culture of quality, agility, and continuous delivery while selecting the right tools to solve complex problems. His work spans platform and REST API development in Scala with FP techniques, and he has hands-on experience building event-driven, distributed systems using Akka, Lagom, and Kafka, plus DevOps pipelines and cloud infrastructure (AWS, OpenStack). Notable achievements include driving the migration from monolithic architectures to REST-based microservices at Socialware, implementing internal DSLs at Vyze, and delivering near-100% production uptime through CI/CD and monitoring at Cisco. Based in Portland and active in the @teampants GitHub ecosystem, he brings both broad technical depth and a passion for mentoring and hiring engineering talent.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science Engineering at University of Colorado BoulderFairview High School
Github Skills (35)
lagom7
reactive7
akka7
java7
scala7
logging6
playframework6
ansible-role6
elk6
microservices5
ansible5
logstash5
distributed-systems5
jvm5
vms4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
teampants/ansible-elastalert
Dec 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 2 months
teampants/ansible-vagrant
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 4 months
ansiblevagrantvmstemplate-based
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