Kris Mcginnes
Principal Software Consultant at Improving
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKris Mcginnes is a Principal Software Consultant with 13+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering consumer-facing mobile and web applications from concept to production. He combines a pragmatic, big-picture approach to architecture with incremental delivery, prioritizing UX and design as core engineering principles. Kris has led projects across diverse domains—mobile apps, video platforms, e-commerce rebuilds, and enterprise tooling—using React, React Native, SwiftUI and more, and contributed to AWS’s open-source Graph Explorer. Comfortable jumping into legacy systems (including a rapid inventory overhaul at SpaceX) he excels at turning ambiguous requirements into concrete, testable plans. Based in Fort Worth, he blends engineering and design sensibilities, often acting as the bridge between product vision and executable technical strategy.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
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Github Skills (110)
tizen10
winforms10
graph-database10
fody10
fallback10
graph-visualization10
wpf10
gremlin10
mutable10
reactive10
dotnet10
windows-forms10
reactive-extensions10
mocks10
functional-reactive-programming10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kmcginnes/graph-explorer
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
React-based web application that enables users to visualize both property graph and RDF data and explore connections between data without having to write graph queries.
Contributions:537 pushes, 466 branches in 1 year 1 month
kmcginnes/System.IO.Abstractions
Sep 2015 - Jul 2018
Just like System.Web.Abstractions, but for System.IO. Yay for testable IO access!
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
system-ioweb-systemtestableabstractionsyay
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