Kassandra Spier-swenson
Host And Technical Operations Lead
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Kassandra Spier-swenson is a systems-focused software engineer and operations lead with 12 years of experience building and running production web and game server infrastructure. Based in Seattle, she led host and technical operations for one of GitHub’s largest open-source video games, migrating legacy stacks to Docker Swarms orchestrated by Ansible while managing multiple public game servers and CI/CD pipelines. She brings strong hands-on expertise in Linux/Windows systems administration, databases, networking, and tooling (NGINX, Traefik, Cloudflare, ZFS, Proxmox, MySQL/MariaDB) and a working programming background across C#, C++, PHP, SQL and more. Notably, she improvised a low-cost Cloudflare relay with HAProxy and a few scripts to mitigate massive DDoS attacks on game infrastructure, demonstrating pragmatic defensive engineering under pressure. Kassandra prefers roles that respect open-source contributions and licensing, and is actively seeking SDE/SRE/DevOps positions where she can apply her backend, performance, and operational strengths.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of completion, Application Developer, 3.7, Certificate of completion, Application Developer, 3.7 at Renton Technical College
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Github contributions (5)
tgstation/tgstation
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
The /tg/station branch of SS13.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:476 reviews, 1116 commits, 1169 PRs in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kassandra's contributions focused on back-end development, primarily addressing bugs and implementing improvements within the game's core systems. Their commits showcase work on game mechanics, including vending machine functionality, and the handling of throws and stack overflows to prevent errors. They also worked on fixing integration issues related to Discord account linking. Additionally, the user was involved in maintaining and improving the Master Controller, introducing stack overflow detection to increase stability.
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tgstation/TerraGov-Marine-Corps
Jul 2018 - Jan 2021
TGMC: TerraGov Marine Corps, a SS13 mod
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 22 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kassandra's contributions focus on improving the server's functionality and automation. They added Travis CI support to the project, automating builds and tests. Furthermore, they implemented an admin verb for server shutdown, including checks for prerequisites and integration with a server management API. They also refactored tick defines for better performance and updated the server to shut down at the end of the round.
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