Casey Watts
Staff Frontend Engineer at Ruby for Good
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCasey Watts is a Staff Frontend Engineer and organizational coach with 16 years in tech, blending hands-on engineering, product and people leadership across Heroku, USCIS, Yale, and public-sector work. He specializes in turning teams into "happy, effective" units through leadership coaching, workshops, and applied psychology—drawing on his book Debugging Your Brain and frameworks like psychological safety, EDI, CBT, and DBT. Equally comfortable shipping front-end systems and shaping team culture, Casey has led engineering, product, and nonprofit efforts while consulting through his firm Happy and Effective and co-founding Empathy in Tech. Based in Washington, DC, he brings an uncommon mix of UX and management experience, community leadership training, and a background as a dance instructor and improv educator that informs his collaborative, human-centered approach.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UMBCBachelor of Science (BS) Psychology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Psychology at Yale UniversityCertificate Computer Programming, Certificate Computer Programming at Community College of Baltimore County
Spanish, Sign languages, Chinese
Github Skills (200)
gist10
javascript-framework10
chartjs-plugin10
web-development10
docx10
whiteboard10
text-editing10
multiplayer10
stackedit10
zendesk10
origami10
emberjs10
borrow10
collaboration10
sketch10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
learnshinythings/learnshinythings.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
caseywatts/dctechslack.com
Feb 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
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