Dan Cassidy
Software Engineer at Descartes Labs, Inc.
Christchurch Metropolitan Area New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Cassidy is a Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience in operations, infrastructure, and HPC, blending military-grade systems discipline from his Marine Corps electronics maintenance background with modern DevOps automation. He has administered large heterogeneous clusters and critical GitLab infrastructure at Los Alamos and helped scale production operations at Descartes Labs and EarthDaily, specializing in Linux, shell scripting, and systems automation. Comfortable across networking, storage, and CI/CD, he thrives on solving complex performance and deployment challenges for science and internet-scale workloads. Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, he pairs a Computer Science degree with practical curiosity—an admitted "nerd, sysadmin, programmer, gamer" who has applied VR research to scientific visualization and led safety and security efforts in high-stakes environments.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Indiana University South Bend
English
Github Skills (105)
minecraft10
windows10
gpu10
linux10
jsonnet10
rust10
opengl10
vte10
git10
karabiner10
bsd10
google10
macos10
tmux10
terminal-emulator10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
rux616/starfield-ship-builder-categories
Dec 2023 - Apr 2026
GitHub repo for the "Ship Builder Categories" mod for Starfield.
Contributions:18 releases, 33 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 4 months
creation-engine-moddinggame-moddingstarfieldstarfield-modding
rux616/Portable-Junk-Recycler-Mk-2
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
This is the GitHub repository for the "Portable Junk Recycler Mk 2" mod for Fallout 4. It contains all the source code and assets used in the mod's creation.
Contributions:10 releases, 443 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 4 months
fallout-4modjunkfalloutrecycler
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