Summary
Benjamin Mckenna is a Full Stack Engineer and Go specialist with 11 years of experience building and modernizing production systems for major enterprises like Alaska Airlines, American Express, PayPal, and The Home Depot. He’s been writing Go professionally since 2016 and has led large migrations, CI/CD improvements, and behavior-driven testing efforts, often acting as the primary contact during complex transitions. Benjamin combines systems-level thinking (porting C to Go, IaC with Pulumi/AWS) with hands-on delivery—containerizing cross-timezone data pipelines and standardizing multi-language codebases. He’s recognized for mentoring peers on secure coding, improving onboarding through clear documentation, and winning internal security competitions. Based in Mesa, Arizona, he brings a practical customer-driven mindset from a background that spans support, operations, and technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Electrical Engineering, BSc Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Chaparral High School
English, German