Aria Mckinley
Staff Engineer at CoderPad
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAria Mckinley is a Staff Engineer based in Chicago with 14 years building developer-facing web platforms and internal tooling that accelerate teams. She specializes in frontend architecture, accessibility-forward UX, and improving developer experience—having led migrations to modern React, implemented a Bazel monorepo, and shipped Monaco-based IDE features. At CoderPad she drove cross-cutting efforts like live captions, multi-file IDEs, and collaborative drawing, blending product curiosity with vendor and cost analysis. Earlier roles include building high-throughput log UIs and Node logging libraries at Timber and owning shared frontend frameworks at Netspend, demonstrating a strong focus on performance and platform ergonomics. A self-taught engineer and frequent open-source maintainer, she pairs hands-on implementation with documentation and training to spread best practices. Colleagues rely on her to turn messy legacy systems into developer-friendly, accessible experiences.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Self-educated
English
Github Skills (200)
testing10
styled-components10
declarative10
markdown10
javascript10
seo10
sublime-text10
flexbox-grid10
react-component10
flexbox10
html10
social-media10
gatsby10
angular10
electron10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ariamckinley/gatsby-remark-social-cards
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
Gatsby remark plugin for generating social card graphics
Contributions:31 commits, 14 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 months
gatsbyjsgraphicgatsbytwitter-cardsreact
mediachicken/MovieClipX
Apr 2012 - May 2016
Contributions:89 commits, 1 push in 4 years 1 month
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