Casey Faist
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCasey Faist is a seasoned SRE and DevOps engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, cloud-native systems using Go, Python, and Linux across multi-cloud environments. A former Senior SRE at DigitalOcean and Python Platform Expert at Heroku, Casey focused on improving developer experience and large-scale Python deployments, including maintaining Heroku’s widely used Python buildpack and presenting at PyCon. He combines hands-on CI/CD and build tooling improvements with developer advocacy, having created onboarding docs and delivered tutorials that reduced friction for app deployment. Based in Orlando, he brings a pragmatic blend of platform engineering, analytics background, and community leadership—an engineer who not only hardens systems but also makes them easier for others to use.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Religion/Religious Studies Minor in Behavioral Neuroscience, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Religion/Religious Studies Minor in Behavioral Neuroscience at Centre CollegeData Analyst Nanodegree - Completed Data Processing, Data Analyst Nanodegree - Completed Data Processing at Udacity
Github Skills (8)
heroku10
bash10
docker10
travis-ci10
dockers10
cicd10
buildpack10
python9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
heroku/heroku-buildpack-python
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Heroku's classic buildpack for Python applications.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:374 commits, 206 PRs, 404 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Casey focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline and build process for the Python buildpack. They addressed issues related to Travis CI dependencies and configuration, added and modified shell scripts for build setup, and updated the Dockerfiles to include necessary dependencies and configurations for various Heroku stacks. Their contributions involved directly modifying build scripts, Dockerfiles, and testing configurations to ensure the buildpack functions correctly across different environments. They also updated buildpack dependencies.
heroku-buildpackherokupythondjangoflask
CaseyFaist/heroku-buildpack-python
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
The official Heroku buildpack for Python apps.
Contributions:2 PRs, 89 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
heroku-buildpackherokupythonbuildpackpython-apps
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