Spencer Mckenney
CTO & Co-Founder at Levanta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Mckenney is a pragmatic technology leader and co-founder with a decade of experience building developer-focused infrastructure and cloud services from Seattle. As CTO at Levanta and former CTO of Grovia, he blends hands-on systems engineering with strategic product leadership, including scaling teams through acquisition. His early career includes multiple roles at AWS working on IoT provisioning and personalization, and impactful open-source contributions to MongoDB’s C and C++ drivers where he refactored core driver internals, added command monitoring, and fixed subtle encoding and URI bugs. Spencer’s background in computer engineering gives him deep familiarity with low-level systems and testing practices, enabling him to ship robust, maintainable back-end code. He’s comfortable moving between startup ambiguity and large-org rigor, and often surfaces hard-to-see issues in library internals that improve reliability for downstream users.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Washington
Github Skills (18)
debug10
c-language10
testing10
c1110
mongodb-database10
c1710
database-driver10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
nosql9
bson9
refactoring9
database8
database-administration8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-c-driver
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
The Official MongoDB driver for C language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 31 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Spencer contributed to the MongoDB C driver, primarily focusing on bug fixes and code refactoring. They addressed issues related to character encoding in the `mongoc_lowercase` function, modified assertion macros in the test suite, and refactored write commands. Furthermore, the user fixed write concern tests and a default bug in the `mongoc-uri.c` file. Their contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of the driver's internal workings and testing infrastructure.
drivernosqldatabasemongodb-drivermongodb
mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
C++ Driver for MongoDB
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 18 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily contributed to the C++ driver's core functionality, focusing on removing deprecated functions and cleaning up code. Their work involved modifying the `collection` class, `libmongoc_symbols.hh`, and test files to refactor and improve the driver's internal workings. They also implemented command monitoring features and worked on index view tests, demonstrating a deep understanding of the driver's internal architecture and testing procedures.
drivernosqlc-plus-plus-17cppbson
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