Dean Casalena

I am a versatile, hands-on software engineering leader. My experience has been on nimble, high-output teams, where I've established cultures of productivity and excellence. While ensuring our top priorities are always business outcomes, I’ve created working environments in which collaboration thrives and engineers flourish.

I have honed a philosophy that supports scale and longevity, prioritizing the clean-up of legacy systems and debts, and making codebases readable and flexible for the future. Read on for specific impacts, awards, patents and press.

Financial Technology Partners

San Francisco. Advisor to some of the largest deals in FinTech including Finicity’s 1B sale to Mastercard, Bilt Rewards’ 200M financing, and Revolut’s 1.25B raise.

VP of Engineering
Mar 2021 - present
Engineering Manager
Dec 2019 - Mar 2021

Quip

New York. A direct-to-consumer dental subscription product (not the other quip) with a proprietary web store, configurator and recurring subscriptions and billing.

Director of Engineering
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Senior Software Engineer
May 2018 - Apr 2019

M/H

San Francisco & New York. A creative and digital agency. Small Agency of the Year in 2014, sold to VCCP Group in 2016. Aka MUH-TAY-ZIK HOF-FER.

Director of Technology
Aug 2014 - Apr 2018

Thismoment

San Francisco. A content management platform for brands with a focus on tools for collecting user-generated content from tagging their social posts, or direct submission.

Director of Engineering, Production
May 2013 - Aug 2014
Senior Custom Solutions Developer
Nov 2012 - May 2013

XDN

San Mateo, CA. A content delivery network (CDN) that allowed clients to re-sell their off-peak capacity. Acquired in 2012. Aka 3Crowd Technologies.

Senior Software Engineer
Dec 2009 - Nov 2012

BitGravity

Burlingame, CA. One of the first to bring HD live video streaming to the web. Vimeo and Bloomberg were customers. Acquired by Tata Communications in 2010.

Software Engineer
Oct 2007 - Dec 2009

B.Sc Mathematics
University of Cape Town, South Africa
University of California: Berkeley, CA, USA