Casten's Work Experience

Principal Member of Technical Staff

2026 - Present
Slack/Salesforce.com

Thought leader responsible creating a cohesive, long-term vision that spans all platforms and technologies. Defining what's next for developer velocity at Slack, from pioneering Agentic CI pipelines to influencing the SCM and CI/CD roadmap for the entire company.

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Staff Software Engineer

2024 - 2025
Crunchyroll

Developed, managed and deployed several HTML5 Living Room Experience apps for the following platforms: Samsung, LG, VIDAA (Hisense), TitanOS (Philips/JVC) with device support for 100’s of millions of devices and millions of subscribers

Typescript Javascript AWS SmartTV

Senior Software Engineer

2019 - 2024
Roku

Designed and managed external partner RokuOS SDK for SoC + chipset vendors. Many device related hardware patents issued and pending: 11670161, 20240426994, 12170824, 12117513, 11962841, 11875672, 11843836, 11523189

Python Embedded C/C++ Hardware Performance Engineering

Senior Security Software Engineer

2013-2019
Netflix

Developed and deployed tools, infrastructure, and services for use for external partner integration and certification related to Security & DRM features. Platforms and Languages included Javascript, Python, Java, C/C++

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Senior Development Manager

2013
Boxtone

Built full dev and test team for new development office in Mountain View (HQ in MD)

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Senior Software Engineer

2011-2013
Netflix

Designed, developed and implemented partner facing Cloud based web services as well as provided a scalable and fault tolerant communication gateway server allowing, push/pull mechanism for sending commands to remote devices behind firewalls, NATted, etc.

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Manager, Software Engineering

2006-2011
Smith Micro Software

Managed and led development efforts for desktop, device, cross platform compression engine for SendStuffNow for the Productivity & Graphics group. Patent for product design: 20130046833.

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