Kasey Mckenna
Software Architect at Zynga
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolKasey Mckenna is a Software Architect with 14 years of experience designing and shipping games and interactive systems, currently serving as Technical Director on an unannounced Zynga title from Pasadena. A UVA graduate in Mathematics and Computer Science, Kasey blends deep client-side Unity expertise (C#) with back-end experience in Python, AWS Lambda, Rails and JavaScript, having led architecture and full-stack work on titles like FarmVille: Tropic Escape and Words With Friends. He’s driven process improvements—advocating code and architectural reviews, better branching practices, and build/release tooling—that accelerated prototyping and stabilized long-lived live games. Comfortable switching hats between hands-on feature development, tooling, and technical leadership, he has a track record of integrating Twitch and live-service economies and shipping cross-platform solutions. Notably, he has repeatedly taken partial product-lead responsibility—owning integrations, communications with partners, and staffing/cost advice—making him as effective at delivery planning as at low-level engineering.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics and Computer Science at University of VirginiaGithub contributions (5)
kmckenna525/advent-of-code
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 92 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
kmckenna525/anagrammer
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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