Grant Mcconnaughey
CEO at Postpone
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolGrant Mcconnaughey is a product-focused full-stack software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building scalable web products and leading engineering organizations. As CEO of Postpone and formerly a senior backend engineer at Zapier, he has architected high-throughput systems (billions of records/month), large-scale migrations, and cross-cutting rollout infrastructure using Python, Django, Vue.js, and AWS. He’s led teams of up to 45 engineers as Director of Engineering, mentoring managers to build autonomous, high-performing teams while maintaining hands-on contributions to open source projects like jazzband/django-avatar and explorerhq/sql-explorer. Comfortable shipping both product-facing features and critical infra—cryptographic key rotation, distributed JWT systems, and analytics pipelines—he blends pragmatic engineering with product sensibility. Based in Wisconsin, he combines startup founder grit with enterprise-scale architecture experience and a history of improving test coverage and long-lived Django projects.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Information Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Information Science at Missouri Southern State UniversityAssociate's Degree General Studies, Associate's Degree General Studies at Crowder College
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Github Skills (20)
python10
django10
avatar10
reporting-services10
testing9
unix9
migration9
grails9
groovy9
xml-parsing9
sql9
csv9
excel8
json8
xml6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-avatar
Apr 2015 - May 2022
A Django app for handling user avatars.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 120 commits in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Grant primarily contributed to the Django-based avatar application, focusing on core functionality and maintenance. They removed and added middleware, refactored tests, and updated the CHANGELOG, setup, and versioning information. Significant work involved adding Django migrations and ensuring the project's compatibility with Django versions through various updates and adjustments.
pythonavatarsdjangohandlingavatar
explorerhq/sql-explorer
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
SQL reporting that Just Works. Fast, simple, and confusion-free. Write and share queries in a delightful SQL editor, with AI assistance.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 24 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Grant made several contributions to the Django-based SQL Explorer project. They fixed a Django 1.9 compatibility issue, added PyPI classifiers, and implemented initial data exporters for CSV, JSON, and Excel formats. They also refactored the exporter functionality and implemented a stream download feature. Furthermore, the user addressed UI-related aspects by adding an "unsaved changes" message to the editor.
sql-queriesdjangosql-databasesqlcollab
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