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Note: After the mass layoff at Verizon, I’ve taken a few months off to restore my large wooden home built in 1906. I’m now available and anxious to be coding again. As a Staff Software Engineer, I bring strong expertise across multiple technologies and programming languages. I’ve led engineers for market-leading SaaS products from concept to maturity, participated in two software startups, and even designed, manufactured, and sold a luggage product. Beyond coding, I excel in requirement analysis, system architecture, telemetry, refactoring, debugging, and adopting emerging technologies. I enjoy collaborating with product managers and stakeholders to conceive, design, refine, and maintain new products and features. Lately I’ve been using AI code tools to generate features, fixes, and tests, reviewing each change and hand-coding where necessary, with GitHub Copilot as my assistant.…Note: After the mass layoff at Verizon, I’ve taken a few months off to restore my large wooden home built in 1906. I’m now available and anxious to be coding again. As a Staff Software Engineer, I bring strong expertise across multiple technologies and programming languages. I’ve led engineers for market-leading SaaS products from concept to maturity, participated in two software startups, and even designed, manufactured, and sold a luggage product. Beyond coding, I excel in requirement analysis, system architecture, telemetry, refactoring, debugging, and adopting emerging technologies. I enjoy collaborating with product managers and stakeholders to conceive, design, refine, and maintain new products and features. Lately I’ve been using AI code tools to generate features, fixes, and tests, reviewing each change and hand-coding where necessary, with GitHub Copilot as my assistant.

Ken McKaba

Full Stack Developer, Front-End Developer, Back-End Developer, +2

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Note: After the mass layoff at Verizon, I’ve taken a few months off to restore my large wooden home built in 1906. I’m now available and anxious to be coding again. As a Staff Software Engineer, I bring strong expertise across multiple technologies and programming languages. I’ve led engineers for market-leading SaaS products from concept to maturity, participated in two software startups, and even designed, manufactured, and sold a luggage product. Beyond coding, I excel in requirement analysis, system architecture, telemetry, refactoring, debugging, and adopting emerging technologies. I enjoy collaborating with product managers and stakeholders to conceive, design, refine, and maintain new products and features. Lately I’ve been using AI code tools to generate features, fixes, and tests, reviewing each change and hand-coding where necessary, with GitHub Copilot as my assistant.…Note: After the mass layoff at Verizon, I’ve taken a few months off to restore my large wooden home built in 1906. I’m now available and anxious to be coding again. As a Staff Software Engineer, I bring strong expertise across multiple technologies and programming languages. I’ve led engineers for market-leading SaaS products from concept to maturity, participated in two software startups, and even designed, manufactured, and sold a luggage product. Beyond coding, I excel in requirement analysis, system architecture, telemetry, refactoring, debugging, and adopting emerging technologies. I enjoy collaborating with product managers and stakeholders to conceive, design, refine, and maintain new products and features. Lately I’ve been using AI code tools to generate features, fixes, and tests, reviewing each change and hand-coding where necessary, with GitHub Copilot as my assistant.

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Note: After the mass layoff at Verizon, I’ve taken a few months off to restore my large wooden home built in 1906. I’m now available and anxious to be coding again.

As a Staff Software Engineer, I bring strong expertise across multiple technologies and programming languages. I’ve led engineers for market-leading SaaS products from concept to maturity, participated in two software startups, and even designed, manufactured, and sold a luggage product. Beyond coding, I excel in requirement analysis, system architecture, telemetry, refactoring, debugging, and adopting emerging technologies. I enjoy collaborating with product managers and stakeholders to conceive, design, refine, and maintain new products and features. Lately I’ve been using AI code tools to generate features, fixes, and tests, reviewing each change and hand-coding where necessary, with GitHub Copilot as my assistant.

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Staff Software Engineer at Verizon (Emerging Tech Division)

October 1, 2024 - October 1, 2024

Led the remote training web app prototype of the next-gen BlueJeans meeting service; implemented front-end in React, back-end REST APIs with AWS Lambda and Node.js, and GraphQL resolvers; enabled real-time training, attendance tracking, live meetings with audio, webcams, screensharing, polls, and breakout rooms; supported native GoTo/BlueJeans client features and WebRTC SDKs; improved scalability for large attendee counts using live streaming; built telemetry and logging system with REST and Splunk; mentored peers on advanced React features and profiling.

Staff Software Engineer at LogMeIn / GoTo

January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2011

Led GoTo Meeting client engineering (native Windows, later web clients); built GoTo Webinar and GoTo Stage SPAs; developed back-end REST microservices using AWS Lambda, Node.js, GraphQL resolvers, and Express.js; implemented GDPR anonymization and deletion workflows for MySQL/Aurora; delivered responsive front-end UI with React/Redux; scaled meeting service to thousands of attendees and delivered real-time media features.

Co-founder and Lead Engineer at Miramar Systems

January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2002

Led multiple teams from concept to porting across Windows, Mac OS/2, and embedded platforms; developed and ported networking and file/print server solutions; created web-based versions using Java Servlets, JSP, JDBC; contributed to cross-platform connectivity and server-side integration; led strategic technical direction and mentored engineers.