James Mcgaa
Software Engineer at Instagram
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJames Mcgaa is a software engineer with nine years of experience building backend and Android products at Meta, currently shaping Instagram Stories, cross-Meta experiences, and early IG Metaverse work. An MIT Computer Science graduate based in Pittsburgh, he blends Kotlin/Android, Python, and React/Node expertise with a history of data-driven internships in telematics, GIS, and optimization modeling. He has shipped features across backend and mobile teams and has a knack for translating research-grade models into production systems, evidenced by past FEMA relief optimization and auto-insurance ML projects. Comfortable across full-stack and data science domains, he quietly maintains personal Kotlin and tooling projects on GitHub that surface practical solutions for cross-platform engineering challenges.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at North Allegheny Senior High School
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Github Skills (6)
espn9
sports-data9
json8
kotlin8
partiql8
sql7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JamesMcGaa/lightshow2818
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
JamesMcGaa/AdventOfCodeAll
Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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