Benjamin Mckenna
Full Stack Engineer-GoLang Developer at Alaska Airlines
Mesa, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin 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 UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Chaparral High School
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (45)
windows10
linux10
command-line10
netcore10
powershell10
macos10
rights10
shell10
docker9
documentation8
documentation-generator8
hearthstone8
overlay8
bash8
openxml8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
britishben/dotfiles
Nov 2014 - Aug 2022
Contributions:149 commits, 115 pushes in 7 years 10 months
shrimpboyho/chew
May 2015 - Apr 2021
Some ninja stuff...
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 5 years 11 months
ninja
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