Summary
Aria Mckinley is a Staff Engineer based in Chicago with 14 years building developer-facing web platforms and internal tooling that accelerate teams. She specializes in frontend architecture, accessibility-forward UX, and improving developer experience—having led migrations to modern React, implemented a Bazel monorepo, and shipped Monaco-based IDE features. At CoderPad she drove cross-cutting efforts like live captions, multi-file IDEs, and collaborative drawing, blending product curiosity with vendor and cost analysis. Earlier roles include building high-throughput log UIs and Node logging libraries at Timber and owning shared frontend frameworks at Netspend, demonstrating a strong focus on performance and platform ergonomics. A self-taught engineer and frequent open-source maintainer, she pairs hands-on implementation with documentation and training to spread best practices. Colleagues rely on her to turn messy legacy systems into developer-friendly, accessible experiences.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Self-educated
English