Bailey McKelway
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBailey McKelway is a Senior Software Engineer based in Richmond, VA with nine years of experience building full-stack web applications using Python, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and AWS. They have driven growth-focused product work at VEED.IO, contributing to features that helped scale ARR and reduce churn, and recently held engineering leadership roles culminating at Capital One. Bailey is an active open-source contributor to the Wiki Education Dashboard, improving front-end UX with smart auto-scrolling and robust handling of edge cases in React. They also created Classroom Simulator, a lightweight React game that handled 25,000 server requests on launch, demonstrating an ability to optimize for performance and real-world traffic spikes. Comfortable across product, growth, and infrastructure domains, Bailey combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for shipping polished user experiences. Their background includes a master's in computer science from Georgia Tech and repeated experience turning feedback-driven iterations into measurable product improvements.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science at Virginia Tech College of Engineering
Github Skills (5)
component-development10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
react10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
WikiEducationFoundation/WikiEduDashboard
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Wiki Education Foundation's Wikipedia course dashboard system
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 38 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Bailey primarily contributed to the Article Viewer component, focusing on improving the user interface and functionality. Their commits addressed issues like handling special characters in user names, indicating when content is missing for a user, and implementing author scrolling. They utilized JavaScript and React to modify existing components, integrating new features and addressing bugs in the user interface.
dashboardwikifoundationwikipedia
BaileyMcKelway/live-stream-radio-api-frontend
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Frontend app for controlling live-stream-radio
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 months
frontend
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