Kane Baccigalupi
Principal Engineer at Freelance
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKane Baccigalupi is a principal engineer and product-minded technology leader with 17 years of experience building scalable web and native applications, currently shaping architecture and delivery at Cisco Meraki while serving as a fractional CTO. He has repeatedly transformed legacy systems into high-velocity, service-oriented platforms—most notably as SocialChorus CTO—and led product and data initiatives across government (18F, California Dept. of Technology) and startups. Kane blends hands-on engineering (Python, Node.js, AWS pipelines, ML for geospatial fire prediction) with pragmatic product roadmaps and build-vs-buy tradeoffs to speed time-to-market and boost customer engagement. He mentors teams on agile practices, equitable hiring, and measurable delivery, having co-chaired a DEI committee and reworked hiring/promotions to increase diversity. His open-source and backend QA work includes contributions to event-management tooling like railsbridge/bridge_troll, reinforcing a strong testing and automation mindset. With degrees spanning fine art to a master’s in computer science, he brings uncommon cross-disciplinary creativity to technical strategy and product design.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBFA Fine Art Painting, BFA Fine Art Painting at San Francisco Art Institute
Github Skills (6)
testing10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
devise7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
railsbridge/bridge_troll
Mar 2012 - Jun 2012
Event management system for all the Bridges (RailsBridge, MobileBridge, GoBridge, etc!)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kane focused on developing and testing the back-end logic of the event management system. They implemented features related to volunteering for events, including handling RSVP creation and updates. Significant contributions involved writing and modifying controller specs using RSpec, to ensure the proper behavior of the events controller.
management-systemevent-management-systemevent-managementrailsruby
refactories/task-it-to-me
Jun 2015 - Sep 2023
Command line Ruby application for staying on track
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 24 branches in 8 years 4 months
railscommand-linerubyruby-application
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