Kellin Mcavoy
Software Engineer at Electronic Arts (EA)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKellin Mcavoy is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building backend systems at Electronic Arts from Austin, Texas. He has a strong foundation in cloud-native development and secrets management, evidenced by contributions to the popular external-secrets project where he implemented provider interfaces and schema registrations for Kubernetes secret integration. Kellin began his professional journey with IBM internships, where he designed an automated closed-captioning service using Watson and Node.js, demonstrating an early aptitude for practical AI integrations. A Grand Valley State University CS graduate with a 3.78 GPA, he pairs solid academic grounding with hands-on production experience at scale. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who enjoys turning third-party APIs and infrastructure primitives into reliable platform components.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.78, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.78 at Grand Valley State University
Github Skills (7)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
schema9
schema-design9
schema-org9
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
external-secrets/external-secrets
Nov 2020 - May 2021
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service like AWS Secrets Manager and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 37 commits, 21 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kellin's primary contribution was implementing a provider interface and related components, including a generic store and schema registration, within the `external-secrets` project. The code changes indicate the creation and modification of files related to a fake provider and schema management. This involved adding functionality and integrating it with existing project components. The changes appear to be based on code from another secret manager project.
external-secretspartyexternal-secrets-operatorsecret-managementsecrets-manager
mcavoyk/Quirk
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Quirk is an open source, hyperlocal, anonymous social media platform for mobile and web clients.
Contributions:67 commits, 16 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 months
social-networksocial-media-platformhyperlocalmedia-platformsocial-media
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