Kyleen Macgugan
Sr Software Engineer at onXmaps, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyleen Macgugan is a Sr. Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building data-oriented, distributed systems and resilient data pipelines for remote-first companies. She has a strong track record in observability and analytics platforms—designing Golang services backed by Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra—and brings hands-on DevOps and DevSecOps automation to production environments. At companies from Chef and Mondoo to onXmaps, she has guided architecture decisions, aligned engineering with product strategy, and mentored teams through complex trade-offs. Based in Seattle, she pairs pragmatic engineering with a data-driven mindset to extract actionable insights from large datasets, and she often operates at the intersection of systems engineering and product-facing analytics. An under-the-radar strength is her background in embedded and systems work (Boeing, Nintendo), which gives her a practical appreciation for performance and reliability in large-scale systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Computer Science, AAS, Computer Science at Bellevue CollegeBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Seattle University
Github Skills (73)
devrel10
metadata10
security10
automation10
infrastructure10
markdown10
inspec10
scale10
ansible10
kubernetes10
erlang10
policies10
nodes10
aws10
compliance10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kmacgugan/core-plans
Aug 2016 - Jan 2021
Core Habitat Plan definitions
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 5 months
habitatdefinitionshabitat-planplan
onXmaps/osm
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
General purpose library for reading, writing and working with OpenStreetMap data
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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