Spencer Mcavey
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Rutland, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Mcavey is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with five years of experience building cloud-native services, observability tooling, and incident management systems. He blends backend systems work in Go and Postgres with frontend React interfaces and Grafana integrations, and led a dashboard project that consolidated fleet service health and cut ~$12,000/month in licensing costs. A former Air Force controller and scheduler, he brings disciplined operational thinking to software reliability and automation. He holds an MS in Computer Science from WPI and a BS from Framingham State, and earlier roles include extending Python-based validation tooling at Raytheon. Spencer’s work often sits at the intersection of infrastructure, monitoring, and practical cost-saving engineering.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Framingham State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAviation/Airway Management and Operations, Aviation/Airway Management and Operations at Community College of the Air Force
Github Skills (18)
tooling10
continuous-deployment9
kubernetes9
search-api9
typesense9
openshift9
reconcile8
api8
cluster-manager8
sdk8
hat8
management6
gitpod6
cli6
user-interface6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
smcavey/Algorithm-Management-System
Nov 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
smcavey/CS534
Sep 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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