Alex Mckinley
Senior Software Development Engineer at AMD
Ridgefield, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Mckinley is a Senior Software Development Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in high-performance and parallel systems, currently contributing to AMD after a multi-year tenure at Intel. He has deep experience in OpenSHMEM and MPI interoperability and has improved multinode testing, performance analysis, and stability for the widely used libfabric project. Alex blends hands-on performance engineering and backend development—optimizing communication patterns, fixing cross-platform bugs, and enhancing test harnesses—to make distributed systems more reliable and measurable. Based in Ridgefield, Washington, he brings practical open-source committee experience and standards insight from early contributions at Intel, plus a competitive team-player edge honed as a national-championship Quidditch captain.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Rochester
Github Skills (11)
c1710
socket-io10
socket10
c1110
networking10
performance-testing10
multithreading9
shell8
script8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ofiwg/libfabric
Jul 2019 - Oct 2022
Open Fabric Interfaces
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 26 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the `libfabric` library's multinode testing capabilities. Their contributions included initializing ranks for processes, adding support for various communication patterns (broadcast, gather, ring), and optimizing the testing script (`runfabtests.sh`) for performance. Furthermore, they made bug fixes related to type mismatches and socket domain support, showcasing an emphasis on stability and cross-platform compatibility, as well as performance analysis. They also introduced performance options to analyze the timing of the tests.
interfacesminecraftfabric
AMcKinley15/SOS
Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
Sandia OpenSHMEM is an implementation of the OpenSHMEM specification over multiple Networking APIs, including Portals 4 and the Open Fabric Interface (OFI). Please click on the Wiki tab for help with building and using SOS.
Contributions:4 PRs, 47 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
siemensapiportalsopenshmemfabric
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