Casey Picker
Director Of Software Engineering - AI Products at Red Ventures
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCasey Picker is a Director of Software Engineering based in Charlotte, NC, who combines 20+ years of technical experience with 12 years in hands-on engineering leadership to build AI-driven product teams. Currently leading a 10–15 person AI Products organization at Red Ventures, he defines technical strategy, drives roadmaps, and ensures reliable delivery for revenue-generating systems. His background spans front-end craftsmanship—contributing UI fixes to widely used projects like The Events Calendar plugin—to full-stack platform ownership across mortgage lead and paid media engineering. Known for mentoring engineers and elevating observability and quality, he moves smoothly between coding standards and high-level architecture. Comfortable with legacy and modern stacks (WordPress, PHP, React, .NET, and cloud-native practices), he combines pragmatic problem-solving with a designer’s eye for UI detail. Colleagues rely on him for steady technical stewardship that turns messy requirements into maintainable, production systems.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Computer Information Systems, BBA Computer Information Systems at Harding University
English
Github Skills (7)
wordpress10
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
front-end-development10
event-calendar10
wordpress-plugin10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Feb 2014 - Mar 2015
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:205 commits, 16 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Casey primarily addressed layout and styling issues within the WordPress plugin, The Events Calendar. Their work focused on fixing visual bugs, particularly with the "View Calendar" link and the responsive grid view, ensuring the user interface displayed correctly on different screen sizes. The contributions included modifying CSS, JavaScript, and template files to refine the appearance and usability of the calendar. They also wrapped « and » in spans to improve responsive positioning in list and single event views.
eventscalendarwordpressthe-events-calendarcalendar-events
moderntribe/square-one
Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
Modern Tribe's legacy WordPress framework for the classic editor.
Contributions:1 review, 114 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 2 months
tribewordpresswordpress-frameworkmodern-tribe
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