Kiana Mcnellis
Software Engineer at Google
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKiana Mcnellis is a software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building and maintaining high-throughput Golang services on the Firebase Hosting team at Google in Austin. She designs, deploys, and operates serverless infrastructure that powers hundreds of thousands of websites and handles billions of requests per day. An active contributor to the widely used firebase-tools CLI, she has driven Hosting-focused features, fixed critical upload failures, and refactored internal systems to improve reliability and testing. Her background spans rigorous CS training at RPI and early dual-enrollment studies in engineering, giving her both theoretical depth and practical discipline. Colleagues know her for quietly tackling thorny backend and DevOps problems that unlock smoother developer workflows. She combines production-scale systems experience with a knack for improving developer-facing tools.
12 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering, High School Diploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics and Engineering TechnologiesBachelor of Science (BS), Masters of Science (MS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Masters of Science (MS), Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMiddlesex County College High School Scholars Program, Dual Enrollment, Middlesex County College High School Scholars Program, Dual Enrollment at Middlesex County College
English
Stackoverflow
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firebase
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google-cloud-functions
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firebase-authentication
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
apidoc10
command-line-interface10
api10
command-line10
firebase10
cli10
firebase-authentication9
google-cloud-functions9
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
jtest8
gcp8
jestjs8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/firebase-tools
Feb 2018 - Feb 2022
The Firebase Command Line Tools
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:53 reviews, 13 commits, 25 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Kiana primarily contributed to the Firebase tools codebase by addressing functional improvements and implementing new features related to Firebase Hosting. They updated internal configurations, integrated a new Hosting Site API with related CLI commands, fixed critical upload failures, and refactored system components to reset global variables. Additionally, the user worked on internal testing components and provided improvements to overall system functionalities. They demonstrated a good understanding of the tools, APIs, and configuration settings.
firebasecommand-line-toolscli
kmcnellis/kmcnellis.github.io
Mar 2014 - Jul 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 5 months
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