Toby Mckes
Senior Software Engineer at The Seattle Times
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Mckes is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 15+ years building full-stack, user-focused products for high-traffic consumer platforms and early-stage startups. He has led engineering teams and shaped technical roadmaps at Tinybeans and Red Tricycle, helping scale a combined audience into the millions while improving code quality, testing, and SEO-driven growth. Comfortable across WordPress, JavaScript web apps, and backend integrations, he combines hands-on implementation with executive collaboration to align engineering work to business metrics. Outside work he writes code and makes music in the PNW, reflecting a creative background from a BFA in Digital Arts that informs his attention to user experience.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at University of Washington
Github Skills (29)
php8
administration8
visitors7
wordpress-plugin7
wordpress6
insert6
artwork5
twitch5
emotes4
nodejs4
chat4
audio4
ads4
chatbot3
javascript3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tmtrademark/cheezcap
Apr 2011 - Mar 2019
Cheezburger Custom Administration Panel
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 8 years
administrationphpadministration-panelpanel
tmtrademark/tm-rotator
Feb 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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