Casey Hofford
Senior Backend Engineer at iNaturalist
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolCasey Hofford is a Senior Backend Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building secure, production-grade services and full-stack applications across startups and client work. He has deep hands-on experience with Ruby, Python, TypeScript/Node, C#, Java, and deployment on AWS/Azure, and has delivered compliance-sensitive systems (SOC2/HIPAA) and zero-downtime production rollouts. At Jane Technologies he led BI integrations, multi-tenant APIs, and financial reporting dashboards for hundreds of enterprise clients, and he mentors engineers while driving documentation and quality practices. Comfortable in fast-paced environments thanks to Colorado College’s intensive block schedule, he pairs an ecology background with software craftsmanship and a practical knack for rapid technology ramp-up. Equally at home building e-commerce and POS systems as he is instrumenting data pipelines, Casey brings a pragmatic focus on reliability, observability, and cross-functional collaboration to mission-driven engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shorewood High SchoolBachelor's degree, Organismal Biology and Ecology Major, Computer Science Minor, Bachelor's degree, Organismal Biology and Ecology Major, Computer Science Minor at Colorado College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
calculator8
esp82665
ecosystem5
esp324
flash4
tuya4
iot3
mqtt3
firmware3
tasmota3
greenhouse2
database1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
caseyhofford/ghgvcR
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
R implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Value Calculator
Contributions:3 PRs, 22 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 9 months
calculatorgasgreenhouse-gasgreenhouse
caseyhofford/ghgvc-1
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
Ecosystem Climate Regulation Services Calculator
Contributions:6 PRs, 21 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
calculatorclimateecosystemregulation
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