Amadeo Casas is a software generalist with 12 years of experience delivering distributed systems, cloud-native backends, and scalable service-oriented architectures, all guided by strong engineering practices. Based in Boston, he has led engineering at Microsoft, Netflix, Lyft, ElasticBox, and Opsmatic, and founded ElasticBox as Head of Engineering. He is currently a Software Engineer at Figma (since 2024), after previously building Stripe’s data quality and observability platform as Tech Lead of the Data Quality team. His leadership spans both large organizations and startups, including directing Everlywell’s engineering and guiding Lyft’s autonomous program. He holds a PhD in Engineering and a Master in Computer Engineering from the University of New Mexico, an MBA in Finance from UNM, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from the University of Valladolid, reflecting a rare blend of research depth, business acumen, and hands-on delivery.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Engineering at University of Valladolid
Master, Computer Engineering, Master, Computer Engineering at The University of New Mexico
MBA, Finance, MBA, Finance at UNM Anderson School of Management
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