Calvin Fisher
Principal Software Engineer at Level
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolCalvin Fisher is a Principal Software Engineer and cross-functional leader with 13+ years of hands-on engineering experience and over a decade of people leadership, having scaled multiple startups to successful acquisitions. He blends deep technical generalism—spanning engineering, QA, DevOps, product, and design—with a pragmatic focus on efficient SDLCs, automated testing, and incident reduction. Calvin has repeatedly accelerated delivery (4x–10x release frequency improvements) and cut production incidents dramatically while building remote teams and career frameworks. His background includes leading integrations and due-diligence for acquisitions, teaching logic and reasoning in academia, and running apprenticeship programs with perfect retention—evidence of a coach-first management style. Based in Madison, WI, he currently applies AI to level the playing field in insurance at Level, pairing product empathy with systems thinking.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Philosophy (major), Neuroscience (concentration), Psychology (minor), Music (minor), B.A., Philosophy (major), Neuroscience (concentration), Psychology (minor), Music (minor) at Albion CollegePhilosophy, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Cognitive Science at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (44)
multithreading9
inversion-of-control8
cities-skylines8
inversion8
minecraft7
fabric7
t46
azure6
wpf6
asp-net6
entity6
azure-sql-database6
react5
compile5
xamarin-forms5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
calvin-fisher/taco
May 2020 - Jul 2024
Engineering growth visualization tool
Contributions:25 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 2 months
reactengineeringdata-visualizationgrowth-engineeringvisualization
calvin-fisher/RimWorld-CaravanAutoBedroll
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
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