Claire Casey
Full Stack Engineer at Spotify
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClaire Casey is a senior full-stack engineer based in the NYC area with five years of experience building scalable, creator-focused products at Spotify and resilient data infrastructure at The New York Times. She specializes in frontend engineering with React, TypeScript, and Next.js while also contributing backend services in Java and Node on GCP, and has led efforts that scaled Backstage to tens of thousands of users. Claire blends product and platform work—recently serving as lead web engineer for podcast rights and distribution systems—and is exploring AI-assisted engineering workflows and agent prototyping. Her background in civil and environmental engineering and transportation analytics gives her a systems-thinking approach to complex problems, and she’s known for shipping practical POCs that cut runtime and increase test coverage. Open to mentoring career switchers, she combines technical depth with an emphasis on thoughtful, equitable, and enjoyable product experiences.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Software Engineering, Full Stack Software Engineering at Rithm SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 4.0, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 4.0, Summa Cum Laude at Rice University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (5)
backstage10
service-catalog10
infrastructure10
microservices10
dx10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
clairelcasey/backstage
Feb 2023 - Apr 2023
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
clairelcasey/Personal_Website
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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