Riley Mckenna
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Issaquah, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRiley Mckenna is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud services at Microsoft, where he leads teams that maintain performance and availability for critical Azure tooling. He combines deep C# backend expertise with a strong security mindset, having designed cloud parity services, optimized data ingestion pipelines, and streamlined secure authentication for internal platforms. Riley contributes to prominent open-source projects such as the Azure .NET SDK and Azure PowerShell—particularly around Peering services and cmdlets—demonstrating both API design and infrastructure automation skills. His background as an Army IT leader and West Point-trained computer scientist informs a pragmatic approach to reliability, incident response, and automation that has saved thousands of hours. Colleagues know him for mentoring engineers, reusing and adapting architectures to accelerate delivery, and blending operational rigor with developer-friendly tooling.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at United States Military Academy at West Point
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
apidoc10
azure-sdk10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
asp-net10
azure-powershell10
api10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
azure10
csharp10
testing9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:213 commits, 13 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Riley primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Azure PowerShell module for Azure Peering. They added new cmdlets related to peering infrastructure, specifically for Az.Peering, indicating involvement in extending the module's capabilities. Their work included common cmdlet base classes, implying architectural knowledge, and integration work, as well as bug fixes related to test cases, demonstrating a focus on quality and functionality within the module.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 19 PRs, 19 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Riley primarily contributed to the Microsoft Azure .NET SDK, focusing on the Peering service. Their commits include API updates, test enhancements, and versioning adjustments within the project's codebase. Key tasks involved adding new models, updating existing test suites, and modifying project files to reflect changes in the service and its associated libraries. The user also implemented features related to direct and exchange peering configurations, including managing prefixes and ASN resources.
dotnetversionedazure-functionssdkconsumers
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