Hugh Mckee
Independent Akka Advocate, Evangelist
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolHugh Mckee is an independent Akka advocate and seasoned software engineer with over a decade of focused experience in distributed systems and decades overall building resilient, cloud-native enterprise applications. He specializes in translating advanced concurrency and replication theory into practical implementations, helping teams adopt Akka 3’s replicated event sourcing and multi-master topologies for fault-tolerant, scalable systems. Formerly a developer advocate and solutions architect at Lightbend and a long-tenured architect at HP, he combines hands-on engineering with developer-facing evangelism to bridge product teams and real-world deployments. Based in Tampa, Florida, Hugh is known for turning complex architectural patterns into accessible guidance and tooling, and for championing the “build it, own it” ethos across development and production.
11 years of coding experience
44 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Aeronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Aeronautical Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
English
Github Skills (98)
simulator10
streaming10
akka-typed10
iot-device10
earth10
reactive9
iot-application9
akka9
linux9
opengl9
vte9
high-performance9
rust9
windows9
gpu9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mckeeh3/akka-typed-java-cluster-singleton
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:60 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
mckeeh3/akka-cluster-kubernetes-simulator
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.