Steve Mckinney Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Washington, DC, US

• I led a team of 9 engineers responsible for the Chorus GraphQL API and several core subgraphs. Users include internal and external engineering organizations at large publishers that build audience and publishing.
• Managed multi-phase launch of Vox Media’s first external GraphQL API and event bus, adding headless CMS capabilities to Chorus SaaS offerings.
• Defined GraphQL best practices and evangelized the adoption of GraphQL across the engineering organization.
• Increased engineering happiness as measured by team surveys by focusing on pairing, collaboration, and sponsorship of junior developers during a global pandemic and racial reckoning.
• Grew team from 2 to 9 engineers while coaching and supporting their career development.
• Helped two engineers grow and receive promotions, a Staff Engineer to an Architect and an Engineer to a Senior Engineer.

Washington, DC, US

Washington, DC, US

• As an IC, I worked across Chorus and Revenue Product Teams building features for our audience, publishing, and advertising platforms.
• Increased data integrity, system reliability, and developer productivity by consolidating fragmented data, schema, and publishing logic for content into a single service.
• Improved the stability and reliability of the structured data API service by adding instrumentation to measure performance, optimizing database queries and CDN VCL, adding client circuit-breaker patterns, and finally.
• Led the backend development and launch strategy of the responsive redesign of The Verge.

Washington, DC, US

Washington, DC, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Led and directed a team of 3 to 5 developers to deliver content management systems (CMS) and web presences for non-profit institutions and universities.
• Increased productivity of the engineering organization by leading a migration to Git and Github and leading workshops on Git workflows.
• Increased transparency of profitability data by developing an internal Ruby on Rails application to report company, account, project resourcing, and profitability.
• Developed an enterprise custom.NET CMS that served over 100 mini-sites.

Arlington, VA, US

• Developed an analytics data warehouse and reporting application that provided insights into visitor behavior and increased revenue from lead generation.
• Developed HabitWatch, an iOS application that deepened the customer lifecycle analytics and improved targeted marketing.
• Integrated John Hopkins University's Mood 24/7 application with an SMS API to send and receive SMS messages and chart user-submitted data.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Designed and developed interactive solutions using Ruby on Rails,.NET, and PHP. Worked collaboratively with information architects and designers to define user interaction, functionality, and system requirements.Clients included Zipcar, Starwood Hotels, World Bank Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, SEIU, Pew Internet & American Life Project, and Washington.

Bethesda, MD, US

Falls Church, VA, US