Leigh Mckenna
Software Engineer - Tools & Automation
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolLeigh Mckenna is a Senior DevSecOps Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing cloud-native, full-stack systems and securing enterprise deployments. They've built cost-saving, serverless and Kubernetes-based solutions at Apple and Capella Space, migrating dozens of services to AWS and standardizing IaC across cloud and bare-metal environments. Proficient in C#, TypeScript, Terraform, and observability stacks, Leigh combines backend engineering with CI/CD ownership and day-2 operations for teams of ~200 engineers. They’ve led blameless RCAs and governed ITAR-compliant AI/LLM adoption in GovCloud, demonstrating rare cross-functional fluency between security, compliance, and developer productivity. Based in Oakland, Leigh also brings a game-design background and tabletop RPG creativity to tooling and UX, favoring solutions that delight users as well as scale.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Game Design And Development, Computer Science, 3.21, Game Design And Development, Computer Science, 3.21 at Rochester Institute of TechnologyCareer and College Promice Dual Enrollment (CCP), Career and College Promice Dual Enrollment (CCP) at Wake Technical Community College
English
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Github Skills (6)
discord-bot6
telegram-bot5
friend1
css1
javascript1
react1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
leighmckenna/ReverseChannelTelegramBot
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
This serves as a reveres channel bot where messages are filtered through the bot before being sent to a chosen recipient.
Contributions:6 reviews, 30 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 4 months
telegram-botbotdiscord-botserveschosen
bmckenna75/bmckenna75.github.io
Jun 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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