Candace Bain
Principal Architect at Backblaze
California, United States
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Top SchoolCandace Bain is a Principal Architect with 12+ years of experience building large-scale, production-grade software and leading cross-functional engineering teams from design through support. She has deep hands-on expertise in distributed compute systems (notably Go microservices on AWS) and a long history of shipping desktop, mobile, and backend systems in languages from C/C++ and C# to Java, PHP, Perl, R, and Python. At companies including Backblaze, GRAIL, and Airbnb she has led projects managing petabytes of genomic data, designing metadata engines, and architecting resilient cloud infrastructure. A pragmatic advocate for software craftsmanship and best practices, she pairs rigorous engineering with a talent for mentoring and team building. Based in California, she blends applied bioinformatics experience with a strong systems background, enabling her to translate domain complexity into reliable, maintainable platforms. Colleagues rely on her ability to learn new technologies quickly and to turn ambiguous requirements into elegant, operational solutions.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCapstone Certificate Bioinformatics, Capstone Certificate Bioinformatics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (13)
java6
ajax6
flash6
php6
authentication4
proxy3
command-line-tool3
cli3
aws3
reverse-proxy2
security2
kubernetes2
rpc1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cndbain/lakemendotabuoy
Jul 2013 - Mar 2021
Contributions:46 commits, 13 pushes, 5 comments in 7 years 10 months
cndbain/kube-aws
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
A command-line tool to declaratively manage Kubernetes clusters on AWS
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
command-line-toolclusterskubernetes-clusterskubernetesaws
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