William Mcconaghy
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Mcconaghy is an experienced software engineer and leader with 11 years in professional roles spanning hands-on development to managing multiple teams, most recently overseeing four Kibana teams at Elastic. He blends front-end expertise in Javascript, AngularJS, and React with backend experience in Java, Ruby, and J2EE, delivering features for web and mobile products across startups and enterprises. William has a track record of mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices, from designing APIs and SSO infrastructure to hardening PHI security for healthcare portals. Based in Durham, NC, he brings a pragmatic, challenge-driven approach informed by a humanities background (MA in English), which helps him communicate complex technical solutions clearly. Notably, he has shifted smoothly between individual contributor and management roles, maintaining technical ownership while scaling teams and product impact.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, BA, English at Eastern Illinois UniversityMaster of Arts (MA), English Language and Literature/Letters, Master of Arts (MA), English Language and Literature/Letters at Kent State UniversityUNC Chapel Hill
French
Github Skills (39)
search-engine10
opensearch10
observability10
visualization10
css10
css-in-js10
eui10
sass10
analytics10
kibana10
java10
restful10
ui-framework10
elasticsearch10
elastic-ui10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bmcconaghy/kibana
Sep 2017 - Aug 2021
:bar_chart: Kibana analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch
Contributions:6 PRs, 670 pushes, 530 branches in 3 years 11 months
analyticschartelasticbar-chartkibana
bmcconaghy/eui
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
elasticframeworkelastic-uiui-framework
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