William Mckinnerney
Senior Backend Software Engineer at CoreWeave
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Mckinnerney is a senior backend engineer with 12 years of experience building and modernizing scalable infrastructure, currently writing software at CoreWeave in Austin. Self-taught early on and formally trained in computer science at UT Austin, he excels at taking proofs of concept into production systems used by millions while also refactoring legacy PHP monoliths into maintainable services. He champions testable, quality code and evangelizes Kubernetes and Agile practices to lift team maturity and resilience during nebulous incidents. An active open-source contributor, he modernized the well-known OpenFlights project by migrating its backend to PDO and improving PHP 7 compatibility and tests. Outside work he supports nonprofits with full‑stack engineering and mentors high‑school students in classics, a mix that highlights his curiosity across technology and the humanities.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (15)
google-chrome-extension10
php10
javascript10
webextension10
firefox-addon10
sql10
chrome-extension10
database-design10
pdo10
react10
firefox-webextension10
mysql10
testing9
css8
html8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jpatokal/openflights
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Website for storing flight information, rendering paths on a zoomable world map and calculating statistics, with plenty of free airline, airport and route data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on refactoring the `openflights` project to use PDO for database interactions, demonstrating a shift towards modern database practices. They updated various backend pages, including import scripts, and test suites to utilize PDO. Further contributions include fixes for dependency paths, PHP 7 compatibility, and improvements to airport search tests. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the project's database connectivity and test suite.
flightreactstatisticsworld-mapweb-app
toolkit-for-ynab/toolkit-for-ynab
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
A general purpose YNAB enhancing browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Have it your way!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of a browser extension for YNAB. They implemented and modified features across different components like accounts, budget, and notes. Their work involved observing and adapting to changes in the YNAB interface to improve the extension's compatibility and user experience by implementing new features and refactoring existing ones.
firefoxbrowserynabenhancingchrome
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