Joe Mcginley
Senior Software Engineer at Semgrep
Vancouver, British Columbia, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJoe Mcginley is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vancouver who specializes in building resilient, behind-the-scenes infrastructure that lets product teams move faster. Over the past 3 years he has driven large-scale data and processing improvements—from designing a distributed event framework that cut document processing costs by 89% to tuning a 10TB Postgres instance and optimizing a Neo4j knowledge graph for production workloads. He excels at reliability work: leading RCA squads, introducing automated recovery and observability with OpenTelemetry, and turning recurring incidents into durable playbooks and tests. Comfortable across clouds (GCP, Azure), orchestration (Kubernetes, Airflow) and infra-as-code, Joe combines platform engineering with pragmatic cost and performance trade-offs. Notably, he’s repeatedly taken fragile systems from frequent failures to long uptimes while scaling to cloud quotas and enabling scaling-to-zero for cost efficiency.
3 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
python-modules10
logging10
sdk10
python10
semgrep8
opentelemetry-collector8
program-analysis7
security7
security-scanner7
packaging7
resolver7
static-analysis7
rust5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jomcgi/homelab
Feb 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:16 reviews, 678 PRs, 2319 pushes in 4 months
jomcgi/opentelemetry-python-contrib
Aug 2024 - May 2025
OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Python modules
Contributions:2 PRs, 75 pushes, 12 branches in 9 months
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