Casey Muller
Software Engineer at Y Combinator
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCasey Muller is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building media-focused research and development systems across music, film, games, and the web. Based in San Francisco, Casey has blended startup founding experience (Jamglue, Bevel) with engineering and leadership roles at Quip, Facebook, and Y Combinator, shipping backend features and integrations at scale. He brings deep technical roots from MIT and hands-on API work—contributing Python backend features to the widely used Quip API including blob and spreadsheet helpers and WordPress integration for media uploads. Comfortable bridging research and product, Casey has a track record of turning media research into practical developer tools and production services. An unexpected throughline in his career is a steady focus on media pipelines and tooling, from academic research labs to consumer and productivity platforms.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorSc.B., Comparative Media Studies, Sc.B., Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhD (dropped out), Computer Science, PhD (dropped out), Computer Science at New York University
Github Skills (6)
urllib10
api10
python10
apidoc10
xml8
http-request8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
quip/quip-api
Apr 2014 - Mar 2016
Quip Automation REST API for editing documents, folders, and users
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Casey contributed significantly to the `quip-api` repository by implementing features in the Python codebase. They added a `get_blob` method to the Python library, demonstrating an understanding of API interaction. The user also worked on example applications, specifically WordPress integration, supporting image uploads and other features. Additionally, they implemented helper methods for spreadsheets.
automationrestrest-api
caseymrm/sportsbar
Aug 2018 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 19 branches in 8 years
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