Summary
Chris Mcgee is a pragmatic Software Engineer III with nine years of experience building reliable business software and improving engineering effectiveness through documentation, conventions, and collaborative leadership. Currently at Principal Financial Group, he combines hands-on development experience with architecture and infrastructure work honed at QRails, where he led CI pipeline creation and Terraform-driven cloud deployments. His background as a consultant and SDET gives him a broad generalist mindset—able to move between code, QA automation, and cross-team coordination to deliver pragmatic solutions. Deeply curious about fintech, he supplements his engineering work with self-directed study in finance and economics to better shape future financial infrastructure. Based in Kansas City, he is known for leading by example and turning ambiguous product needs into well-documented, maintainable systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration - Management Information Systems, Cum GPA: 3.7, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration - Management Information Systems, Cum GPA: 3.7 at Kansas State University
java, c#, python, sql, typescript