John Mckillip
Principal Software Engineer at Tonic Inc.
Batavia, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Mckillip is a Senior Developer with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable cloud systems on Azure and a strong .NET/C# foundation. He leads architecture, CI/CD, and security-first engineering practices while embedding AI as a first-class collaborator across the SDLC, experimenting with agentic workflows and Continuous AI. Hands-on with tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot, he designs AI-native pipelines using GitHub Actions and MCP-based agents, and writes production code in Node.js, Python, Go, Rust and .NET. As a former Principal Software Engineer, he has led and mentored cross-functional teams, standardized release pipelines, and integrated SonarQube-driven quality gates at scale. He pairs systems thinking and risk-aware security leadership with a maker’s curiosity—often prototyping POCs himself—and is actively exploring autonomous, AI-driven developer workflows. Based in Batavia, Illinois, he also advocates for accessible UX and unwinds by discovering new music and reading horror novels.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (AA) Design and Visual Communications General, Associate of Arts (AA) Design and Visual Communications General at Collins CollegeAssociate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science at Waubonsee Community College
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Github Skills (29)
umbraco10
cms10
asp-net-core10
csv-parser10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csv-parsing10
csv10
csharp10
csv-reader10
episerver9
content-management-system9
elasticsearch-client9
vulcan9
headless-cms8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
john-mckillip/jmckillip-com
May 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
john-mckillip/CriminalIntent_Android_App
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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