Elaine Mckinley
Senior Software Engineer at Discord
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolElaine Mckinley is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, user-facing systems and developer tooling, currently at Discord after six years shaping payroll and time-tracking products at Gusto. She has led end-to-end launches—most notably the iOS time-tracking flow that became the platform’s highest-traffic experience—and delivered public APIs, external integrations, and compliance-focused engineering projects for tens of millions of users. Comfortable across mobile, backend, and full-stack initiatives, she has driven vendor migrations and internal platform consolidations that reduced operational friction. Based in Denver, Elaine blends hands-on implementation with cross-team leadership and a pragmatic focus on reliability in high-traffic environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Barrington High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Western Illinois UniversityContinuing-education courses, Computer Science, Continuing-education courses, Computer Science at Harper College
Github Skills (75)
discord10
discord-bot10
api9
menu9
npm9
api-documentation9
google-meet9
package9
monorepo8
microsoft-teams8
lerna8
mental-health8
eslint8
nodejs8
testing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elainemckinley/electron-gitlab-ci-monitor
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
Electron CI monitor for Gitlab CI.
Contributions:4 releases, 41 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
gitlab-cimonitorgitlabelectron
elainemckinley/lerna-demo
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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