Dave Mckenna
Senior Software Engineer at Xero
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Mckenna is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable web and service architectures, currently contributing at Xero from Old Toronto. He was an early hire at Hubdoc, helping evolve a prototype into a high-traffic accounting automation platform and mentoring junior engineers along the way. Comfortable across the stack, he has shipped complex SPAs (Backbone.js → React) and microservices that handle significant computational load. His curiosity spans functional languages and experimental domains — Elixir, Erlang, Clojure and even quantum computing — which informs pragmatic, resilient system design. A Recurse Center alumnus with a liberal-arts background from the University of Toronto, he brings a blend of rigorous thinking and playful creativity (nachos and salsa enthusiast) to problem solving. Colleagues describe him as a steady builder who prefers practical solutions that scale and are fun to work on.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Hons, HISTORY, B.A., Hons, HISTORY at University of TorontoSoftware Development, Software Development at Recurse Center
Github Skills (47)
selectable8
test-framework8
bdd8
tdd8
browser8
nodejs8
testing8
javascript7
cordova-plugin6
java6
integrate6
cordova6
react5
cross-browser5
fabric5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
davemckenna01/dotfiles
Jun 2012 - Jan 2023
Contributions:39 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 8 months
davemckenna01/shync
Mar 2012 - Feb 2014
Contributions:47 commits in 1 year 11 months
parallelsshcluster-managementscpmanagement-tool
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