Samuel Cassiba
President at Black Panther Security
Beverly Hills, California, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Cassiba is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with 11 years of engineering experience who currently leads Black Panther Security as President while serving on Apple's board. He blends deep systems and DevOps expertise—from managing hundreds of bare-metal servers and building hybrid cloud practices at Workday to contributing critical dependency and packaging fixes for Habitat and Kubernetes on Apple Silicon. A long-time open source steward, he was a founding contributor and multi-cycle Project Team Lead within the OpenStack ecosystem and has a track record of reducing operational friction through automation and tooling. Samuel’s background spans enterprise infrastructure, security, and high-availability systems, and he has practical experience delivering HIPAA-compliant healthcare platforms and zero-downtime migrations. Based in Beverly Hills, he pairs an autodidactic, entrepreneur mindset with hands-on coding (“converting caffeine into dreams one keystroke at a time”) and a focus on enabling both customers and engineers. An atypical mix of leadership, open-source credibility, and cross-domain academic interests gives him a rare ability to translate complex technical constraints into repeatable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Science Computer Science, Doctor of Science Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Nanotechnology, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Nanotechnology at Delft University of TechnologyMaster's degree Criminal Justice and Corrections, Master's degree Criminal Justice and Corrections at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Education - BEd English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor of Education - BEd English Language and Literature/Letters at University of Tennessee at MartinDoctor of Science Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Doctor of Science Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Murray State UniversityDoctor of Medicine - MD Neurobiology and Neurosciences, Doctor of Medicine - MD Neurobiology and Neurosciences at University of MarylandBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery - MBBS Internal Medicine Residency Program, Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery - MBBS Internal Medicine Residency Program at Vanderbilt UniversityAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Stanford University
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Github Skills (12)
automation10
automations10
build-system10
package-manager10
ssl10
package-management10
python10
zlib9
bash9
configuration-management9
rust5
container4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
habitat-sh/habitat
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Modern applications with built-in automation
Role in this project:
Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on enabling and configuring dependencies for Python within the Habitat project. They added support for `zlib` and `SSL` to the Python2 and Python implementations. The user also integrated `ensurepip` to build the pip binaries. Additionally, the user corrected an issue related to the `pkg_include_dirs` for `core/libffi`.
containersrustconfiguration-managementpackage-managerautomation
habitat-sh/core-plans
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Core Habitat Plan definitions
Role in this project:Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:5 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Samuel focused on enabling and configuring dependencies for Python 2 within the Habitat package management system. Their contributions included enabling zlib and SSL support, incorporating ensurepip, and correcting include directory configurations for other core packages like libffi and python. They primarily interacted with the `plan.sh` build files, modifying configure flags and ensuring required libraries were included. These changes were essential for Python packages to function correctly within the Habitat environment.
planhabitatpackage-managerdefinitionspackages
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