Jeremy Mcanally
Technical Director at Sequoia Capital
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Mcanally is a Technical Director with 17 years of hands-on experience building web and mobile applications and leading engineering teams to deliver high-quality software. He blends craftsmanship in Ruby, Rails, Go, Swift, and Python with strong practices in TDD/BDD and agile project management to drive reliable, maintainable systems. Jeremy has progressed through senior engineering and principal roles at Sequoia Capital, Apple, IFTTT, and GitHub, bringing both startup agility and enterprise-grade rigor. He contributes to open source test tooling—improving Asciidoctor’s test framework—which highlights a focus on developer experience and quality infrastructure. Based in Florida and holding an MLA in Software Engineering from Harvard Extension School, he pairs technical depth with a leadership style that emphasizes mentorship and measurable delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatist who treats software development as a craft rather than just a means to ship features.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Organizational Leadership and Preaching, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Organizational Leadership and Preaching at Johnson UniversityMaster's of Liberal Arts Software engineering, Master's of Liberal Arts Software engineering at Harvard Extension School
Github Skills (7)
testing10
test-framework10
xpath10
test-automation10
ruby10
nokogiri9
asciidoc8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
asciidoctor/asciidoctor
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
:gem: A fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain, written in Ruby, for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML 5, DocBook 5, and other formats.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:19 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to improving the testing framework of the Asciidoctor project. Their work involved adding new helper methods for testing, particularly focusing on XPath assertions and rendering strings. They also fixed existing test contexts and corrected test failures, ensuring the reliability and accuracy of the test suite. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the quality and maintainability of the project's testing infrastructure.
manpagepublishingasciidoctordocbookhtml-5
jm/perwikity
Jan 2009 - Sep 2010
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 8 months
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