Summary
Chase Caster is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building reliable, test-driven systems and shaping the digital comics platform at Dark Horse Comics. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to senior architecture and leadership positions, now contributing at Mach while remaining rooted in Iowa City. Chase specializes in resilient, maintainable back-end systems and pragmatic delivery, with a track record of stewarding a production digital storefront used by real customers. Beyond work, he builds creative personal projects like lingule.xyz and novle.xyz, signaling a blend of technical curiosity and product-minded tinkering. His background spans enterprise and product-focused teams (Intel, Wells Fargo, Jive) and a CS degree from Iowa State, giving him both scale-minded discipline and indie-project creativity. An understated strength is his consistency: long-tenured ownership of core systems and a preference for testable, readable code that endures.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Iowa State University