Casey Davis has a diverse work experience spanning over several industries. Currently, Casey serves as a Senior Software Engineer at Fastly, where they are responsible for engineering and developing metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms. They oversee the collection of hundreds of millions of metrics from various sources using technologies such as prometheus, otel-collector, and thanos. Casey also focuses on developing logging and metric pipelines using tools like opentelemetry, rsyslog, splunk, clickhouse, vector GCS, and S3.
Before joining Fastly, Casey worked at Limelight Networks as a Sr. Service Reliability Engineer and as an Operations Engineer. In their roles, they served as the team lead for the monitoring and metrics platforms team, ensuring the operational stability of internal monitoring systems for content delivery. They also engineered network-wide Prometheus/Thanos metrics collection, aggregating millions of metrics per second from multiple applications.
Casey's earlier work experience includes roles at Level 3 Communications, where they worked as an Operations Engineer and a Core Engineer. They focused on network tools development, workflow optimization for IP Operations Engineering, and primarily used technologies such as Java, Perl, PHP, and JavaScript. Casey also worked at Global Crossing as a VoIP Network Engineer, Network Specialist, and Network Architecture Engineer, gaining expertise in VoIP lab management, customer troubleshooting, network operations, sales engineering, customer proposal engineering, and high-profile network design and management.
Their career began in 1998 at GlobalCenter, where Casey worked as a Network Operations Specialist. Prior to that, they served in the United States Air Force as a Strategic Aircraft Maintenance Specialist - Crew Chief, specializing in flight-line maintenance, detailed inspection, troubleshooting, and emergency management on the KC-135 airframe.
Casey Davis attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University from 1990 to 1991. During this time, their field of study was Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical Engineering. No degree name is provided in the information given. Additionally, Casey Davis has obtained additional certifications as a Cisco Certified Network Associate and as a Zabbix Certified Specialist. However, the institution, month, and year of obtaining these certifications are not provided.
May, 2021 - present