Casey Stark
Software Engineer at Google
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCasey Stark is a software engineer in Berkeley with 15 years of experience building search and document-understanding systems at Google, where they’ve worked on mapping text to Knowledge Graph entities and more recently on identifying and mitigating harmful content. With a PhD in Astrophysics and a background in computational cosmology, Casey brings strong scientific rigor to large-scale back-end problems and data analysis. They contribute to open-source scientific tooling—having improved the popular yt project with virtualenv-style activation support, PEP-compliant refactors, and analysis integrations—demonstrating care for developer experience and reproducible environments. Comfortable moving between research and production, Casey has a track record spanning national labs, academic instruction, startups, and major tech, and often applies physics-style modeling to complex engineering challenges.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics and Math, B.S., Physics and Math at University of Southern CaliforniaPh.D., Astrophysics, Ph.D., Astrophysics at University of California, Berkeley
Stackoverflow
757reputation
89kreached
15answers
3questions
Github Skills (19)
python10
scientific-computing10
data-analysis10
environmental9
code-readability9
management9
manage9
scientific-visualization8
astrophysics8
git7
web-framework6
html6
django-models6
django-forms6
math6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yt-project/yt
May 2011 - May 2013
Main yt repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:75 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Casey contributed to the yt project by implementing support for virtualenv-inspired activate scripts, allowing for environment management. They integrated changes from the yt_analysis branch, suggesting involvement in data analysis-related functionalities. The user also performed code readability improvements, adhering to PEP 8 and PEP 257 standards, and refactored code in the halo_objects module and other modules.
pythondatafinite-element-analysisgeophysicsnuclear-engineering
caseywstark/dachshund
Feb 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:84 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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