Mo Mcelaney
Lead, Open Source AI Developer Programs at IBM
Burlington, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolMo Mcelaney is a pragmatic technology leader who directs IBM’s Open Source AI Developer Programs, blending developer advocacy, open-source stewardship, and team leadership across runtimes, operators, open data, and AI. With 11 years in tech and deep roots in community building—from founding Girl Develop It Burlington to co-organizing WiMLDS and serving on the Vermont Technology Alliance board—she pairs hands-on front-end contributions with program-level strategy. Her background spans developer advocacy at IBM CODAIT, workforce development for IBM Quantum, and earlier QA engineering, giving her a rare mix of public-facing evangelism, technical mentoring, and rigorous engineering practice. She’s known for turning community momentum into concrete outcomes (e.g., growing a local GDI chapter to 1,100+ members) and still finds time to tend a real garden as a Master Gardener intern.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at La Salle UniversityRapid Software Testing by James Bach and Michael Bolton QA Engineering, Rapid Software Testing by James Bach and Michael Bolton QA Engineering at DevelopSense
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
html10
front-end-development10
css9
rails8
ruby-on-rails8
website-design7
site-design7
cloud-foundry6
cloudant6
ibm-cloud6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
girldevelopit/gdi-website
Oct 2016 - Sep 2017
This is the official repository for the Girl Develop It website.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 6 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mo primarily worked on updating the website's front-end components. Their contributions focused on modifying the summit page by adding and updating sponsor logos, adjusting the layout of elements, and correcting character issues within the code. They also refactored class names to improve the organization of the content. Furthermore, the user added a city to the chapter list.
cssjavascriptgirl
mmcelaney/mmcelaney.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
My personal site.
Contributions:13 PRs, 107 pushes, 15 branches in 7 years 11 months
reactnextjs
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