Summary
Jesse Kasky is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of recent experience and over two decades in software engineering across companies from Microsoft and Google to MyVR.com and Slack. He specializes in web applications, Python, databases, Linux, and cloud computing, and has a strong background in build, release, and production engineering. At Slack he applies large-scale systems thinking honed during long tenures at Google and MyVR to improve developer workflows and platform reliability. Jesse blends hands-on coding with an operator’s mindset, frequently working where infrastructure, CI/CD, and application code intersect. His career shows a pattern of staying multi-year stints to drive deep technical impact rather than short-term patches. He studied computer science at Cogswell and San Francisco State, bringing both formal training and practical, long-term product experience to complex engineering challenges.
12 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at San Francisco State University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Cogswell Polytechnical College