Megan Conkle
Principal Software Engineer at KDE
Fullerton, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMegan Conkle is a Principal Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience in aerospace and defense, currently driving system-level software at Collins Aerospace where she bridges embedded and server-side platforms for high-reliability, soft real-time systems. She has spent her entire software career at Raytheon/Collins, delivering mission-critical solutions and mentoring teams on robust architecture and delivery. Outside of work she is the creator and long-time maintainer of ghostwriter, a C++/Qt distraction-free Markdown editor now part of the KDE Project, where she has led significant refactors, export improvements, and UX refinements. Megan combines deep formal training—a BS and MS in Computer Science from Cal State Fullerton—with pragmatic engineering craftsmanship that spans low-level tokenization and parsing to user-facing features. Colleagues rely on her to translate stringent aerospace requirements into maintainable, testable code while advancing notable open-source tooling used by journalists, engineers, and academics.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton
Github Skills (9)
markdown10
markdown-it10
qt10
ui-design9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
ux-design9
refactoring8
refactor8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/ghostwriter
Aug 2015 - Sep 2022
Text editor for Markdown
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 releases, 839 commits, 110 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Megan primarily worked on refactoring the ghostwriter text editor for Markdown. Their contributions involved renaming and restructuring classes, specifically those related to tokenization and parsing, and adding comments to improve code clarity and maintainability. They also implemented updates to the export functionality, allowing users to choose individual Markdown processors and enabling smart typography. In addition, they refactored the theme functionality, introduced various UI/UX refinements with new features, and addressed several bug fixes.
text-editoreditormarkdown-editormarkdown
flathub/io.github.wereturtle.ghostwriter
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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