Ralph Mcneal
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Zillow
Greater St. Louis United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRalph Mcneal is a senior principal software engineer who designs and drives large-scale tooling and platform strategy across Zillow’s CoreTech organization, influencing Data & Analytics, Infrastructure, Networking, and Developer Experience. He brings a decade-plus of hands-on leadership from high-impact roles at Twitter—where he helped operate an enterprise mono-repo and scale CI to 90,000 worker nodes—to long tenure at Lumen and a decade founding a consulting firm delivering Fortune-scale e-commerce and SaaS products. Ralph excels at turning complex distributed systems and developer workflows into reliable, measurable platforms, with deep experience in cloud-native architectures, CI/CD, containers, and scalable storage. He has a track record of shipping production systems that reduce developer friction and surface failures quickly, and he pairs technical depth with entrepreneurial experience in emerging tech like grid computing and indoor positioning. Based in Greater St. Louis and now active in the Seattle area, he blends pragmatic engineering with strategic architecture to accelerate innovation across organizations.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Management Information Systems Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Management Information Systems Computer Science at University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Github Skills (14)
alerts9
api8
runner8
operator7
monitoring6
prometheus6
bazel6
monitor6
kubernetes-operator5
prometheus-operator5
kubernetes5
remote-execution4
cloud-platform1
ansible1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ralphmcneal/flight-school
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
learn to fly
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
pythonjavabinderedtech
ralphmcneal/spring-boot-hello
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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