Cam Mchenry
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolCam Mchenry is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience who blends pragmatic full‑stack development with systems-level work in Rust-powered tooling. Based in State College and currently on GitHub’s engineering team, he contributes to both product code and open-source projects, including core work on the oxc Rust JavaScript toolchain and documentation modernization for the widely used Peggy parser generator. He’s shipped linting rules and bug fixes that improve JavaScript/TypeScript analysis while also strengthening test coverage for Rust projects like tarpaulin, showing a strong cross-language testing mindset. Comfortable across front-end documentation builds and back-end rule engines, he often bridges gaps between developer UX and static analysis correctness. Known for methodical refactors and reliable bug fixes, he brings attention to edge cases (e.g., loop handling in lint rules) that materially reduce false positives.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Penn State UniversityCommonwealth University-Lock Haven
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Github Skills (20)
parserator10
eleventy10
javascript10
parser10
cargo10
testing10
typescript10
peg10
compiler-compiler10
typescript-types10
html10
linter10
code-coverage10
compiler10
rust10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
oxc-project/oxc
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
⚓ A collection of JavaScript tools written in Rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:249 reviews, 167 PRs, 235 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Cam contributed primarily to the `oxc-project/oxc` repository, focusing on implementing and refining JavaScript linting rules. Their work included fixing bugs, such as handling loops in the `getter-return` rule, and implementing new features, specifically the `no-plusplus` rule and parts of the `no-extend-native` rule. The user's contributions improved the accuracy and functionality of the linter, adding support for additional JavaScript and TypeScript features.
compilerjavascriptlinterminifierparser
peggyjs/peggy
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Peggy: Parser generator for JavaScript
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 36 commits, 7 PRs in 17 days
Contributions summary:Cam refactored the documentation site for the Peggy parser generator. They made updates to the site's layout, added base layouts and components, and modified scripts to load correctly. They also configured and updated the Eleventy build process, including adding and updating formats. Their work modernized the documentation site and improved its functionality.
javascriptgrammarpegparser-generatornodejs
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