Jessica Mckinnie
Platform Engineer
Ilchester, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJessica Mckinnie is a Platform Engineer with 14 years of experience who helps product teams focus on features by owning cloud infrastructure, service meshes, and internal tooling. She has driven large migrations and reliability work at scale—moving critical infrastructure to AWS, transitioning fleets to centralized management, and evolving custom RPC systems into Envoy-based service meshes. Comfortable across SRE and platform engineering, she builds reusable Terraform modules, sidecar/client libraries, and deployment tooling that reduce operational cognitive load. Jessica balances rigorous engineering with creativity outside of work as an artist crafting handmade resin home goods, a hobby that informs her pragmatic, user-focused approach to tooling. Based in Ilchester, Maryland, she combines deep systems knowledge with a consistent record of shipping infrastructure improvements that let product engineers ship faster.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering and Mathematics, BS Computer Engineering and Mathematics at Iowa State University
English
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Github Skills (64)
aws-lambda10
azure-functions10
aws10
google-cloud-functions9
aws-dynamodb9
serverless-framework9
lambda9
serverless-offline9
cloud-services9
serverless9
serverless-plugin9
serverless-architectures9
lambdas8
optimizely8
amplify7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
deathweaselx86/LightOrgan
Feb 2014 - Mar 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 5 years 1 month
deathweaselx86/thingsandbits
Aug 2011 - May 2021
Contributions:90 commits, 6 pushes in 9 years 10 months
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