James Casey Email & Phone Number

Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Leading the Microsoft Identity Developer Platform PM team. Built a developer experience team from scratch for Microsoft Entra External ID, a new Consumer IAM offering. Developed a developer first strategy for External ID and launched multiple developer tool integrations including Visual Studio, VS Code, Azure App Service and Power Pages.Acted as Open Source and Developer Experience expert for Identity Division, helping teams integrate/build OSS and create great developer experiences.

Greater Seattle Area

Product leader for the Azure Client Tools team. We build the native Azure management CLI tools (Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell) along with integrations to OSS management tools such as Terraform and Ansible. Led initiative to increase CLI coverage for Azure by over 50% to 100% coverage of all GA services across Azure CLI, PowerShell and Terraform.Led multiple other infrastructure product teams including Azure Container Registry and Azure Resource Manager Extensibility. Bootstrapped the Azure Native ISV Service offering, bringing partners such as DataDog onto Azure as tightly integrated service, co-managed by Microsoft and the ISV.

James leads the product engineering teams responsible for the design and development of the integration of Chef Software's product portfolio with the largest providers of cloud computing and on-premise infrastructure including Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, and HPE, among others. He coordinates with Chef Software’s partners to enhance the Chef experience on all cloud platforms for all users and manages a geographically distributed set of engineering teams.As part of the Partner leadership team he builds and supports technical alliances with new partners of Chef Software. He leads a team responsible for supporting technical efforts around GTM with System Integrator and ISV partners.

Greater Seattle Area

James leads the distributed engineering team at Chef Software to deliver cutting-edge tools at speed to help automate the cloud. He leads the strategic direction of product development, and is committed to growing diverse teams of highly motivated technical talent and ensuring their success.

Portland, Oregon Area

James develops the Analytics Platform, Chef’s compliance and visibility product. He leads and mentors the growing engineering team that are responsible for the implementation of Chef’s Analytics platform as well as the product teams responsible for the go-to-market strategy.

Portland, Oregon Area

Architected and built the developer and hosting infrastructure for the online banking services start-up Simple.Achievements:* Responsible for building out all infrastructure in AWS related to the launch of Simple.com and the Simple banking product. * Designed and developed the workflow for the build and release process, allowing easy promotion of artifacts to production.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

Technical architect for the monitoring infrastructure used to ensure the reliability, availability and performance of the WLCG grid infrastructure across 170 computing centres in 34 countries.Lead developer on messaging components, developed in python and java using ActiveMQ. These consisted of both backend components and web applicationsResponsible for team of 10 people working on tools for operations and monitoringAchievements:* Designed architecture for WAN scale grid service monitoring and management* Developed a prototype of local fabric monitoring for grid services based on Nagios* Designed a messaging-based architecture for global transport of monitoring data for grid services* Implemented the core messaging components of the architecture* Implemented bug fixes and improvements in ActiveMQ where were integrated into the upstream version* Ran daily operations for WLCG grid infrastructure monitoring* Replaced bespoke software with commodity components for monitoring, messaging and web development. Organised training and mentoring of development teams in the new technologies* Moved the Tools for operations and monitoring team to an agile development process including deploying the Atlassian developer tools (JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye) to support the process

Geneva Area, Switzerland

The Worldwide LHC computing grid (WLCG) is a global physics collaboration that builds and maintains data storage and analysis infrastructure for the physics community to analyze data from the Large Hadron Collider experiments being run at CERN.As technical lead for the Tools for Operations and Monitoring team, was responsible for the design, development and operations of monitoring solutions for over 100,000 cores at 300 sites around the world. I delivered a monitoring infrastructure used to ensure the reliability, availability and performance of the grid infrastructure across 170 computing centres in 34 countries. I was also line manager for 10 international staff members. Achievements:* Developed grid storage and metadata systems deployed in production at over 200 institutes worldwide* Implemented automated build and test system that reduced time to build test and deploy software from 2 weeks to 1 day* Co-ordinated large-scale data management challenges (> 2GB/sec) to test the WLCG infrastructure at scale across international partner sites* Service planning and delivery for CERN Grid data management services* Developer on many data management components in the area of storage and metadata managementTechnical Skills: Project management, Grid Data Management, WAN Networking, Tape and disk based storage systems, software development (Java, C++, C, Perl), Database development (Oracle, MySQL)

London, United Kingdom

Escape Velocity developed applications and infrastructure for mobile technologies, using WAP. It applied real time personalization to produce compelling end-user applications. I was hired as employee number 5 as part of the core software development and architecture team. The company grew to 20 people before running out of funding in 2002.Principal Developer - Core Framework Group Lead Java developer and technical architect in middleware framework for mobile technologies Achievements:* Developed and delivered java based application server framework for content delivery to wireless devices* Prototyped products for mobile technologies using behavioural personalisation Technical Skills: Java, wireless technologies (WAP, SMS), Machine Learning (Bayesian Inference,Behavioural Personalisation), Build and release management systems (Ant, RPM)

London, United Kingdom

Lighting designer and moving light programmer in West End theatre and corporate event and music industries.Achievements:* Moving light programmer for major artists including Elton John, Kylie Minogue and Rod Stewart* Lighting designer for many high profile eventsSkills: Theatre and Event Lighting, Project Management, Logistics, Finance and Budget responsibilities

Cambridge, United Kingdom And Menlo Park, California.

Harlequin was a 300-person company working on pre-press printing technologies and advanced programming language development. AchievementsAs a C++ Middleware developer for distributed print workflow systems in web software engineering team:* Designed and authored a set of operating system abstractions that gave a common C++ interface to system functionality across different platforms.* Interfaced Lotus Notes with internal source code control systems, Mail, News and the Web.* As a developer working on internal information systems, performed front-line information system support and training for 150 internal users.Technical Skills: Java, Perl, C, C++, Dylan, Middleware (CORBA, HTTP, NNTP, SMTP), Information Systems (Lotus Notes)

Geneva, Switzerland

Developer in the World Wide Web team. Pioneered solutions for large-scale document management which were subsequently bought by industry. Achievements:* Implemented WebLinker, a server side mechanism for improving consistency of links in the World Wide Web. Harlequin Ltd. subsequently purchased Weblinker, along with companion product WebMaker. Participated in the creation of robots.txt standard, implemented by WebLinker.* Authored and presented a paper on my work, "WebLinker: A Tool for Managing Cross References Between WWW Documents." at the Second International World Wide Web Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA , October 1994.* Wrote Internet Draft for ftp:// and file:// URI schemes * Contributed code to Perl Libwww library and CERN HTTP serverTechnical Skills: HTTP, HTML, URI, Perl

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Captain of the Climbing Club; Auditor of the Maths Society

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Built Environment: Light & Lighting