Casey Takeda
Senior Software Engineer at Affirm
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCasey Takeda is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, user-facing systems and internal platforms, currently driving product and technical outcomes at Affirm. He’s delivered measurable business impact—reducing checkout latency by a second to unlock $74M in GMV, lowering servicing costs by 20%, and enabling an AI chatbot that handled over 5 million conversations in a year. Comfortable across the stack, Casey has led migrations from monoliths to microservices, architected RBAC for SOC readiness, and shipped shared UI libraries that gate features by permissions and region. He mentors engineers, runs interviews and agile ceremonies, and has a Berkeley CS degree (3.81 GPA), reflecting both strong technical chops and collaborative leadership. A practical problem-solver, he pairs data-driven product thinking with hands-on engineering to turn complex requirements into auditable, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, 3.81, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, 3.81 at University of California, Berkeley
English, Japanese
Github Skills (3)
cpp6
python6
member3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
42cs/personal-assistant
Nov 2015 - Dec 2021
For Practical Programming - Learn how to contribute to Open Source Projects
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 6 years 1 month
pythoncpppracticallearn-programmingcompetitive-programming
Case-y/Case-y.github.io
Apr 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1033 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 5 months
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