Summary
Cody Mcnamara is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building high-traffic web products and optimizing front-end performance. He excels across the full stack, having rebuilt critical page types and APIs using React, Vue/TypeScript/Nuxt, Ruby on Rails, and modern CI/CD practices. At CNET and other publishing properties he drove measurable improvements—reducing load times, cutting API requests, improving Core Web Vitals, and automating editorial workflows that saved hours each week. Cody pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with strong cross-functional collaboration, having scoped architecture, conducted hundreds of code reviews, and worked closely with design and video teams. Trained at App Academy after a UCLA background in psychology and political science, he brings an uncommon mix of human-centered thinking and technical rigor to product problems. Off the clock his GitHub bio hints at a playful performance obsession: fast, efficient code with personality.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at App Academy
English, Spanish