Kevin Cassidy
Senior Software Engineer at Mux
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Cassidy is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years building realtime video and mobile experiences, particularly for Apple platforms. He’s shipped low-latency streaming and media systems at Twitch and now focuses on video infrastructure at Mux, combining deep client-side iOS expertise with backend engineering judgment. His career spans startups and enterprise teams (Rabbit, Capital One, Fox) and includes early mobile work across iOS, Android, and even Windows Phone, reflecting a pragmatic, cross-platform tooling mindset. A former chemical engineering student and ex-Solaris support contractor, he brings analytical rigor and systems-level thinking to performance and reliability challenges. Wryly succinct in code and life—his GitHub bio “ACK and you shall recv()” hints at an engineering style that values explicit acknowledgements and robust networking semantics.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (79)
mobile-development10
app-framework10
carthage10
swift10
amazon-ivs10
cross-platform10
xcode10
android10
mobile10
macos10
amazon10
objective-c10
ios10
react-native10
player10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CFKevinRef/KCOrderedAccessorFix
Feb 2013 - Nov 2015
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 9 months
dotnetcsharporderedfixes
aws-samples/amazon-ivs-player-ios-sample
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
This repository contains sample apps which use the Amazon IVS Player iOS SDK.
Contributions:6 reviews, 56 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 6 months
ios-sdksample-appsamazonamazon-ivssdk
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