Hi there! My name is Cassidy. I'm the CTO at
Contenda! I'm also a startup advisor
and investor, developer experience expert, and meme-maker on the
internet. I enjoy building mechanical keyboards, playing music, and
teaching in my free time.
You should
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Well hello there! My name is Cassidy. I'm a startup advisor and
investor, developer experience expert, and meme-maker on the internet.
I'm also CTO at
Contenda! Before
now, I worked at OSS Capital, Remote, Netlify, React Training,
CodePen, Amazon, L4 Digital, Clarifai, and Venmo, and graduated from
Iowa State University. I currently advise some companies, including
Netlify, Centered, and Plasmic, and do some angel investing, as
well!
I run
a weekly newsletter and
love teaching and helping people become better coders! In my spare
time, I love playing music, building mechanical keyboards and LEGO
sets, and hanging out with
my sister Cami. I also have
a
Patreon if you'd like
to chat with me regularly (our Discord group is so active I can hardly
keep up!), get resume reviews, schedule mock interviews with me, or
just play video games. No pressure to join in, and I appreciate your
support a ton no matter what!
In terms of where I am on the internet (and off), you might have seen
me in
Glamour Magazine
or the
Big Dream documentary
a few years back, my
Scrabble
or
Stack Overflow The Key
keyboard projects in a couple dozen different publications! I also
co-host the
Stack Overflow Podcast
and help write their newsletter as well. I also made a successfully
funded
Kickstarter project called Go: On the Go!
to get people interested in playing the game Go. I've spoken at over a
hundred events around the world, and have made online classes on
Scrimba,
Udemy,
Skillshare, and moooore. I love speaking at events, and I have a
speaker rider, if you'd like to
talk to me about one you're running. I also enjoy speaking on
podcasts! Feel free to email me at cassidy at cassidoo dot co with
details.
Alright, since you've read this far, have a joke: Why are mountains so
funny? Because they're hill areas.
Cassidy loves to make memes and dreams and software. She's currently
the CTO at Contenda. She's worked for a variety of companies, large
and small, advises startups, and she's had the honor of working on the
board of various non-profits. She's active in the developer community,
and one of Glamour Magazine's 35 Women Under 35 Changing the Tech
Industry and LinkedIn's Top Professionals 35 & Under. As an avid
speaker, Cassidy has participated in many events including the Grace
Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing, TEDx, the United Nations,
and hundreds of other technical events. She wants to inspire
generations of STEM students to be the best they can be, and her
favorite quote is from Helen Keller: "One can never consent to creep
when one feels an impulse to soar." She loves mechanical keyboards and
karaoke.
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