Steve Mckinney
Principal Engineer at Stitch Fix
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Mckinney is a Principal Engineer based in Washington, D.C., with 15 years of hands-on experience and over two decades in the software industry, including five years of engineering management. He builds and leads diverse, inclusive teams that prioritize collaboration, pairing, and mentorship to consistently deliver reliable, high-impact products. At Vox Media he drove GraphQL adoption, launched their first external GraphQL API and event bus, and scaled a team from 2 to 9 while coaching engineers into senior roles. He focuses on improving system reliability and developer productivity through schema consolidation, instrumentation, and fault-injection testing. Now at Stitch Fix, he continues to blend technical depth with people leadership to ship scalable services and elevate engineering culture. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer-manager who combines large-system thinking with day-to-day mentorship and measurable improvements in team happiness.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University of Maryland
Github Skills (53)
insert8
task-management7
ruby7
bash7
linux7
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warp7
shell7
neovim6
macos6
alfred-workflow6
filter6
neovim-plugin6
ratatui6
zsh6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stephenmckinney/vimfiles
Jan 2015 - May 2022
Config files for Vim with a focus on Ruby and Rails development. Solarized ALL the things.
Contributions:4 PRs, 30 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 5 months
vimall-the-thingsrailsrubyrails-development
stephenmckinney/dotfiles
Aug 2010 - May 2022
dotfiles with a focus on Ruby and Rails development. Solarized ALL the things.
Contributions:428 commits, 20 PRs, 82 pushes in 11 years 11 months
all-the-thingsrailsrubyrails-developmentruby-and-rails
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