Cassidy Marble
Team Lead and Backstage subject-matter expert for the Finastra platform workstream. This portfolio groups work into completed, ongoing, and planned items, and notes plainly where a specific role contribution was not documented.
Backstage refresh
Extraction of plugins into their own repositories, refreshed architecture, migration planning, entity model, and the new environment.
Open project pageGrafana integration
Read-only dashboards, alerts, catalog ingestion, API design, and stack scaffolding.
Open project pagePlatform integrations
Jira, TechDocs, Nexus, templates, scorecards, and landing-zone alignment.
Open project pageTechnical leadership
Planning, team enablement, code review, stakeholder preparation, and delivery reporting.
Open project pageBackstage deep dive
Technical walkthrough of the migration itself: architecture, phases, decisions, quality metrics, and the cutover plan.
Open deep diveSkills honed for this role
- Backstage plugin architecture and new backend system: directly tied to ongoing plugin separation, published releases, and backend/scaffolder migration.
- TypeScript boundary validation and test strategy: directly tied to reviewed work on unsafe casts, runtime validation, Sonar findings, and 80% coverage rules.
- Grafana API and performance design: directly tied to dashboard reconstruction, API limits, caching, selectors, variables, and stack provisioning.
- Kubernetes, Flux, and deployment cutover: directly tied to the refreshed environment, namespace/parallel-run planning, and instance deployment.
- GitHub App security and organization-scoped access: directly tied to API-rate reduction, read:org permissions, OAuth setup, and organization-based authorization.
- Terraform and landing-zone template design: directly tied to the Grafana stack template, product templates, and network-owned higher-level modules.
- Technical program leadership: directly tied to work breakdown, Jira hygiene, team assignment, decision logs, operational blockers, and stakeholder demos.
- Executive communication: directly tied to CTO preparation and explaining Backstage as a unified entry point with business value.