Luke Mcconnaughey
Software Engineer at Tanium
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Mcconnaughey is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable systems across embedded, cloud, and DevOps domains, currently contributing at Tanium after four years at Cisco. With a BS in Computer Engineering from NC State, he blends low-level embedded systems work—gained at Ford on connected-vehicle R&D—with backend and infrastructure engineering in enterprise environments. He has a strong testing and QA mindset demonstrated by meaningful contributions to the NSF-backed Expertiza project, improving backend robustness through focused unit tests. Comfortable across UX-aware design, performance validation, and infrastructure development, he gravitates toward projects that require both systems thinking and pragmatic engineering. Based in Raleigh, he pairs a taste for embedded constraints with cloud-native practices, making him effective at bridging device-level realities and scalable software delivery.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering , BS Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (10)
testing10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
expert9
expert-system9
peer8
peer-to-peer8
st7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
expertiza/expertiza
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 1 issue in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the `spec/models/student_task_spec.rb` file, indicating a focus on testing and potentially the back-end logic of the Expertiza application. The commits involve adding and modifying tests, including those for `topic_name`, `in_work_stage?`, `relative_deadline`, `hyperlinks`, and various data retrieval methods. These changes suggest an effort to improve the robustness and reliability of the system through comprehensive unit testing.
nationalpeer-reviewexpertiza-wikidjangoexpertiza
LukeMccon/Airdrop
May 2021 - Mar 2025
A Minecraft Paper and Spigot plugin for customizable care packages
Contributions:2 releases, 53 PRs, 90 pushes in 3 years 10 months
minecraftbukkit-pluginbukkitplugincustomizable
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