Casey Mcginty
Software Engineer at Facebook
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolCasey Mcginty is a seasoned software engineer with 18 years of experience specializing in embedded systems, OS and networking, release engineering, and DevOps. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he currently drives release engineering and tooling at Facebook after leading productivity and build/release efforts at Box and Akimeka. His technical strengths span C and Python development, multi-threaded Linux and RTOS environments (VxWorks, Nucleus), flash memory and file systems, and advanced build and source-control automation using Git, Perforce, Gradle and related tooling. He has hands-on experience implementing information assurance for DoD-class systems and has improved debugging and error-handling in high-profile open-source projects such as zstd by adding signal-based stack traces and build-time symbol options. Known for bridging low-level embedded work with large-scale release pipelines, he consistently turns complex platform constraints into reliable, auditable delivery processes. An RIT graduate with honors, he combines deep systems knowledge with practical engineering for production-critical software.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, with Honors, BS, Computer Engineering, with Honors at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (34)
debugging10
git10
debug10
signal-handling10
python10
linux10
c1110
c1710
directory-structure10
powershell10
error-handling10
macos10
gradle10
image-processing9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/zstd
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Casey focused on enhancing the error handling and debugging capabilities of the zstd compression library. Their work involved implementing signal handlers to generate stack traces upon unexpected program termination, specifically for Linux and macOS environments. They refactored the signal handling mechanism and moved related functions for better code organization. They also updated the build process by including options related to the symbol generation for more effective debugging.
deflatezstandardbzip2compressionzstd
cmcginty/flacsync
Jun 2009 - Oct 2014
Recursively mirror a directory tree of FLAC audio files to AAC or OGG.
Contributions:67 commits in 5 years 4 months
aacdirectory-treerecursivelyoggaudio
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