Casey Yee

Full Stack Web, AI, UX, 3D, Product Engineering

[email protected]
+1 778 883 8800
LinkedIn: in/whoyee
Web: caseyyee.com

Work Experience

10+ YOE, 7 years Mozilla, 4 years Unity, ++startups

Leadership

Ability to work with multiple teams and can be engaged with Product, Design and other leadership in detailed discussions while providing deep technical knowledge. Help Guide System Design, Architecture, Developer Experience, Code Quality and Workflows Prioritize and and manage requirements and features

Full Stack Development Expertise

Typescript, Javascript, Tailwind, React, Next, NestJs, Prisma, Drizzle, Postgres, Jest, Vitest AI agents & workflows using MCP, LLMs, Python 3D graphics, WebGL, React Three Fibre, WebRTC Ops, CI/CD, DevEx, Infra, AWS, Google Cloud

Kable

AI Powered Video Streaming

Senior Engineer

March 2025 - Current
Vancouver, BC (remote)

Kable AI R&D

• LLM integration with the Kable video streaming service using MCP server. Providing tools to be able to search, recommend and playback videos with AI augmented data to direct users into relevant video streams.
• MCP client development, with generative UI interfaces. A Novel way to build user interfaces using AI. Client built with Vercel AI
• Python AI models services integration using NestJS
  • Python workers to evaluate video quality, content safety and video to text transcriptions
  • LLMs to tag and analyze videos for engagement scoring
  • Computer vision and face detection for hardware

Kable Streaming

• Application Guide, Network, Creator Dashboard features.
• Content Analytics Tracking, Video views and duration tracking.
• Tailwind, React, Next.js, React Query, Prisma, Nest.js

UNITY Technologies

Realtime 3D Software

Senior Engineer

May 2021 - March 2025
Vancouver, BC (remote)

Parsec App Remote Desktop and Application Streaming (parsec.app)

• Native desktop application + Webview UI built using Typescript, React, Libmatoya. Replaces existing native C solution with new Web UI interface for faster development, and deployment. Attained reliability and feature parity on all features including Login, Computer Connections, Status and Settings features.

Parsec Dashboard, Teams Management Web Portal

• Signup and Login user flows, Including Enterprise SAML and SSO login. “Team” users, computer management and app-rule features,
• Stack includes Typescript, Next.js, XState, Cloudflare, Go.

Parsec DevOps, Scaling & Compliance

• Parsec.app see’s 600,000+ MAU, 100,000+ DAU
• Responsible for build, test and deploy pipelines with GIthub Actions, ESBuild, WebPack, AWS, S3
• Lead efforts on app Performance, Reliability and Availability using Sentry
• SOC2 compliance

Unity Asset Manager 3D Visualizations and Configurators

• Prototype Industrial and Enterprise use cases, using Unity engine and services.
• Product Visualization, Product Configurators and Integrations and with various platforms.
• Stack includes Typescript, Next.js, WebGL/three.js, Google Cloud Services, Postgres, Unity C#

Responsibilities also include

• System Design and Architecture, Code Quality, Review, Mentoring and Leadership.
• Developer Experience and Workflows
• Feature Development, Working closely with Product and Design Teams to Prioritize, Design, Develop and ship Features.
• Data Analytics, Application and Error Telemetry, Automated Unit, Integration and e2e Testing. Jest, Vitest, Storybook, Cypress.

VRIFY

3D Visualization Platform

Lead Engineer, Web

August 2020 - May 2021
Vancouver, BC (remote)

Responsibilities & Features

• Lead Web Platform Engineering team, Working closely with leadership, Product, 3D Content teams, to design, plan and ship features.
• Full-Stack Development, DevOps, Product Prototyping.
• Live Multi-user 3D viewport and application navigation features.
• Realtime Markup, Annotation and Comment capability.
• Integrated Video and Audio conference capability with WebRTC with AWS Chime
• Stack includes Typescript, Vue.js, WebGL/three.js, WebRTC, WebSockets
• Docker, AWS, Go, GRPC

Immertec

VR Surgical Training platform

Lead Engineer, Medoptic

August 2019 - March 2020
Vancouver, BC (remote)
Tampa, FL, HQ

Responsibilities & Features

• Lead Web and Mobile Engineering team. Working closely with the HCI research team, product and design, and operations team.
• VR and mobile interface development, Platform services and applications.
• Full-stack development, DevOps, Prototyping, Research, Planning
• Realtime 4k stereoscopic VR encoding and streaming, using WebRTC, WebSockets.
• React, WebGL/react-three-fibre, Javascript, Unity, C#

Mozilla Corporation

Firefox, OS, WebXR

Senior UX Engineer

September 2012 - 2019
Vancouver, BC (and remote)

Products & Features

• Mozilla Mixed Reality, VR Web Browser
• A-Frame VR content creation framework
• Unity WebXR exporter Unity Asset Store assets
• W3C WebVR API, W3C Immersive Web Community Group, W3C events
• Firefox OS Web Phone Operating System

Roles & Technologies

• Javascript, React, WebGL/three.js
• UX Design and Prototyping, API polyfills, Libraries
• Developer support, advocacy and relations
• Worked with other browser vendors (Chrome, Oculus, Edge) on Web API Design, Development and standards.

Blast Radius

Design Agency

Lead Front-End Engineer

November 2011 - March 2012
Vancouver, BC

Notable Projects

• Nike Air Jordan
• Jumpman 23

Roles & Technologies

• Lead Front-end development teams
• High performance Javascript, HTML, CSS and Web Animation
• Worked closely with client, creative directors, and design teams
• Researched and prototyped design

Vancouver Film School

Digital Design Program, Education

Senior Instructor, Digital Design

January 2010 - December 2011
Vancouver, BC

Senior instructor for the Digital Design program at Vancouver Film School. Reporting to the Head of Department & Program Manager, I created the design and development curriculum as part of the school’s one-year intensive program.

• Instructed Web-Interface Development using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), Flash, and WordPress through five terms
• Instructed Tangible Interfaces courses on physical computing using Arduino micro computers
• Instructed User Experience Design fundamentals.

Awards

• Cannes Lions Bronze – for Mobile, Cyber
• The One Show Finalist – Website, Mobile
• Marketing Awards Gold – Best Website
• Communication Arts Webpick of the Week
• FWA Featured – Site of the Day
• Lotus Awards Lotus – Website
• AWWWARDS Featured – Site of the Day Featured – Site of the Month
• Applied Arts Winner – Best Website Winner – Craft

Articles & Mentions

• UX & Growth Podcast with Austin Knight

• WIRED Magazine - You Gotta Try DIY Virtual Reality Even if You Make Hideous Things Clive Thompson

• KILLSCREEN \VERSIONS - The Future of the Internet is Coming and it’s in VR Jason Johnson

• FAST COMPANY Mark Wilson

Writing

• Create VR on the Web Using Unity3D Mozilla Hacks Casey Yee, February 2018

• W3C Workshop on Web and Virtual Reality: A Look Ahead Mozilla Hacks Chris Van Wiemeersch, Casey Yee, December 2016

• Connecting Virtual Worlds: Hyperlinks in WebVR Casey Yee, November 2016

• Tech in Asian 2016 - Tokyo Casey Yee & Chris Van Wiemeersch, February 2016

• Puzzle Rain: A Musical WebVR Journey for the HTC Vive Casey Yee, October 2016

• Everything you wanted to know about Oculus CV1, Oculus Home, 1.3 runtime and WebVR Casey Yee, April 2016

• Introducing the WebVR 1.0 API Proposal Casey Yee, March 2016