Shane Mckenna
Senior Software Engineer at Gigantic Playground
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShane Mckenna is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building modern web applications, currently based in San Diego after starting his career in County Kerry, Ireland. He brings a strong front-end and full-stack background from roles at Valtech and Gigantic Playground, routinely shipping React and Node.js projects for large brands and agency clients. A Computer Games Development graduate from the University of Limerick, he combines creative problem-solving with pragmatic engineering practices learned in fast-paced, cross-functional teams. Shane is passionate about continuously learning new web technologies and maintains an active GitHub where he showcases side projects and experiments. Colleagues describe him as someone who balances polished UI work with solid backend fundamentals, and who thrives in collaborative delivery environments.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Games Development Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Games Development Computer Science at University of Limerick
English
Github Skills (124)
chrome-custom-tabs10
safari-services10
deep-linking10
react-native-library10
inappbrowser9
outbound9
wait9
react9
testing-library9
react-testing-library8
safari8
browser8
javascript8
gatsby8
e2e8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ShaneMckenna23/dublin-coach-frontend
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:207 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
valtech-sd/coronado-bridge
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
Coronado Bridge is a simple general purpose router of all HTTP requests. It will wrap all RESTful calls from external systems and pass those JSON message into an outbound provider
Contributions:4 releases, 24 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 8 months
apihttp-requestsprovideroutboundcalls
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