Ally Mcknight
Engineering Manager at Patreon
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlly Mcknight is an experienced engineering manager with a decade of experience building and scaling product teams across fast-growing startups and consumer platforms. She has led multiple full-stack teams, owned backend infrastructure for user engagement, and launched dozens of features that drove adoption, analytics, and revenue growth. Known for removing technical obstacles and fostering transparent, growth-oriented cultures, she combines hands-on technical judgment with coaching programs—workshops, book clubs, and individualized career plans—to elevate engineers from junior to principal levels. Her background spans software engineering, hiring design, and operations, reflecting a rare blend of product-facing execution and people-first leadership. Based in Oakland, she balances high-stakes stakeholder management with an emphasis on measurable experimentation and empathetic team processes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration at American UniversitySoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Hackbright AcademyAccademia ItalianaHigh School, High School at The Head Royce School
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Github Skills (17)
elm9
accessibility8
netlify8
widgets8
html6
component-library6
mongoid6
transition6
python6
django6
state-machine5
rails4
ruby4
activerecord4
fonts3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
allymcknight/CompanyClimate
Nov 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
allymcknight/javascriptguessinggame
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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