Jacqueline Mckinney
Principal Software Engineer at Community.com
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacqueline Mckinney is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building secure, real-time and distributed systems across defense and commercial sectors, currently leading engineering efforts at Community.com. She is fluent in Elixir, Go, React, Python, Java and C++, and has a strong background in Scrum, CMMI 5 processes, SDLC and deployment/testing practices. Her career includes designing low-level services and resource management for large government programs at Raytheon and architecting production systems at Truss and General Dynamics. Beyond enterprise work, she contributes to open-source projects like OpenHatch, where she improved core back-end functionality and search features, reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability and user-facing correctness. Holding a M.S. in Systems Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science, she combines systems thinking with hands-on coding to deliver auditable, resilient software.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Systems Engineering, Masters Systems Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Tuskegee UniversityLee High School
Github Skills (6)
web-development10
python10
django10
svn9
git8
forms8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openhatch/oh-mainline
Jan 2012 - Mar 2012
The code that runs openhatch.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jacqueline primarily focused on modifying URLs and view logic related to the OpenHatch website, updating URLs to match website downloads, and fixing mis-wording within Git-related missions. They also updated the people search functionality to include first and last names. Additionally, the user addressed issues and improved the SVN mission, by fixing a bug related to form validation. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality of the OpenHatch platform.
runs
HackMGM/hackmgm-notes
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 5 months
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