About Me
I am a software engineer with 5+ years of experience developing full-stack web applications and native Android apps. As a current developer at Audible my focus is on improving the Core Android app experience. I am passionate about delivering customer facing features as well as improving app architecture. Professionally, I'm excited about constantly learning new technologies, techniques, or algorithms that will make the programs I write faster, more scalable, and more maintainable.
Contact Me
Casey Idzikowski
idzikowski.casey@gmail.com
work
Software Development Engineer I, II
Audible, an Amazon company
|August 2022 - Present
At Audible, I am working as a software engineer, developing the core Android app experience. Promoted to SDE II in Q4 of 2023, I am focusing on ways to improve App architecture by adopting industry best practices and tools (e.g unidirectional data flow, server driven UI, Jetpack Compose). My other main area of focus is improving and building upon the in-app purchasing experience.
Associate Research Specialist
Macrostrat, University of Wisconsin Madison
|February 2021 - July 2022
As an Associate Research Specialist, I applied my expertise in software development to solving data workflow problems. I led the development of 2 full-stack web applications for streamlining data acquisition as well as led database design on core data infrastructure. My responsibilities included updating and maintaining legacy codebases and applications.
Research Intern
Macrostrat, University of Wisconsin Madison
|May 2020 - February 2021
As a research intern, I built upon my programming knowledge from my previous position. With JavaScript and React.js I helped develop the frontend of a lab-data management software called Sparrow, an NSF-funded project. My role as a developer quickly expanded beyond frontend to encompass a python backend RestAPI, python-database workflows, and managing/editing a PostgreSQL database.
Student Worker
Macrostrat, University of Wisconsin Madison
|May 2019 - May 2020
As a Student Worker at the University of Wisconsin Madison, I used Python to analyze and manipulate a large dataset of archival metadata for geochemical lab. I collected my work into a set of jupyter notebooks which are now featured on the Sparrow documentation website.
education
University of Wisconsin Madison
B.S Geosciences
|May 2020
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I assisted a then Ph.D. candidate, now Postdoc, in a 6 week long geologic field season in Western Australia. This fieldwork led to 2 years of independent undergraduate research culminating in a poster presentation at Geologic Society of America 2019. As a student I was able to combine my interest in geoscience with programming and software development.
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Check out my recent projects!
PSQL Auth
A proof of concept for creating a custom authorization system that is database centered. Includes several PSQL functions for an authentication API and Table Policies enforcing Row Level Security based on a custom web-user authorization schema.
Wurlde Clone
A clone of the very popular word guessing game Wordle! All code is original!
xDD Term Linkage
By harrnessing the power of xDD, this application allows users to link terms for a given paper. Through the interface a user can browse already tracked terms in xDD and search for new ones. Users can view terms in paper context using the xDD API.
Macrostrat Web
Macrostrat Web is the public facing side of Macrostrat. This interfect is the geographical visualization of geological data in Macrostrat, Paleobio-Database, and xDD. This interface highlights the power of community level data sharing and the possible visualizations.
BirdsEye
BirdsEye is aimed at editing GeoJSON polygons while keeping topology. This app uses client-side interactions for geometry editing and backend logic for Topology enforcement. This application is built using Python, NodeJS, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL.
Sparrow
Sparrow is a data system for geochemical labs. Sparrow provides tools for labs to manage their data and its geological context. It also provides interfaces to allow third parties (community archives or Earth models) to request data directly from the labs.