Kayla Mcarthur
Software Engineer Manager (L7) at Google
Connacht, Ireland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolKayla Mcarthur is a multi-stack engineer and manager with 13 years of experience who currently leads Google's core mobile release engineering infrastructure, ensuring automated systems deliver compliant, on-time releases across Apple and Android platforms. A decade-plus Apple development specialist, she has driven high-visibility projects at Amazon (including leading Kindle for iOS and company-wide certificate & code signing stewardship) and built products ranging from municipal applications to digital signage and kiosks. She pairs hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source server code like UnrealIRCd with a focus on modularization and access control—with people leadership, mentoring teams through complex cross-functional dependencies. Known for blending security-first thinking into release tooling and platform integrations, she navigates governance and compliance without slowing delivery. Based in Connacht, Ireland, she holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science and brings a pragmatic, infrastructure-minded approach to shipping scalable mobile software.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Github Skills (6)
c1710
irc10
c1110
cprogramming-language10
server-administration10
openssl3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
unrealircd/unrealircd
Jun 2014 - Apr 2018
Official UnrealIRCd repository. Downloads are available from our site
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:188 commits, 15 PRs, 86 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kayla primarily contributed to the UnrealIRCd server codebase, focusing on modularizing channel modes. Their work involved refactoring code to combine functionalities, such as `noinvite` and `noknock` channel modes, into single commits for efficiency. They also modularized and added permission controls to channel modes like `operonly` and `adminonly`, showing a focus on server administration and access control. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the server's internal structure and channel mode implementation.
unrealircdour-sitec-plus-plussaslircv3
klmcarthur/trooth
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:30 pushes, 13 issues in 3 years 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.