Dallas Caley
Co-Founder Entrepreneur at Cherry Blossom Development
Long Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolDallas Caley is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with over 30 years of hands-on engineering experience and 12 years in formal software roles, currently co-founding Cherry Blossom Development in Long Beach. He blends practical systems work—Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure DevOps and event-driven architectures—with product and business acumen honed through founding small businesses and running operations like accounting and legal. Known for strong communication rather than algorithmic showmanship, he excels at translating business needs into clear developer requirements and leading cross-functional teams through complex integrations and compliance efforts. His career spans startups and large enterprises, delivering everything from EHR certifications and SSO rollouts for 30,000+ users to scalable messaging platforms with Kafka and Django. A pragmatic builder, he also authors practical guidance (Minimum Viable Programmer) and designs privacy-respecting social and AI orchestration tools at his current firm.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree - Management Information Systems (MIS), Business Administration, Information Systems Concentration, Bachelor's Degree - Management Information Systems (MIS), Business Administration, Information Systems Concentration at California State University, Long BeachAssociate of Science, Science, Associate of Science, Science at Cypress CollegeCompleted classes for transfer to CSULB including Statistics, Financial and Managerial Accounting, Business Information Systems, Completed classes for transfer to CSULB including Statistics, Financial and Managerial Accounting, Business Information Systems at Long Beach City CollegeAssociate of Arts, Journalism, Associate of Arts, Journalism at Fullerton College
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Github Skills (24)
macos-sierra9
php9
ssh9
macos9
windows-subsystem-for-linux6
mongodb6
angular6
mongo-shell6
angular-reactive-forms6
angular-pipes6
typescript6
visual-studio-code6
clover3
magento2
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dallascaley/cherryblossom
Aug 2013 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years 4 months
dallascaley/finance
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
financefinance-application
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