Cara Mckinley
Staff Frontend Engineer at Wand
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCara Mckinley is a Staff Frontend Engineer in Seattle with 13 years of experience crafting interactive, user-focused web applications and design systems. She specializes in modern JavaScript stacks (React, Flux, Webpack, Babel), responsive HTML/CSS, CMS integrations, and has practical backend knowledge in Ruby, PHP, and MySQL. At Airbnb she led platform migrations, standardized reusable UI across dozens of workstreams, authored a WebRTC support library, and served as an accessibility liaison and mentor. Earlier roles at Mozilla/Pocket and Simple Finance show a pattern of building component libraries, automating frontend testing, and driving large React rewrites. Cara combines design-rooted sensibilities—typography and branding—with deep implementation chops to bridge product design and engineering. She favors pragmatic platformization: turning one-off UIs into maintainable, widely reused systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Graphic Design, Bachelor's, Graphic Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (6)
tower3
eslint-plugin3
parser3
eslint2
babel-eslint2
javascript2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cemckinley/webgl-experiments
Sep 2012 - May 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 8 months
cemckinley/node-mud
Mar 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:47 commits in 9 months
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