Tara Mcgrew
Senior Server Engineer - Games at Twitch
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorTara Mcgrew is a senior server engineer based in Seattle with 17 years of experience building and operating backend systems for games and large-scale internet services. Her career spans SRE and systems engineering roles at Google and Meta, backend work at Epic Games, and current work on BigBox VR, showing a strong focus on reliability, automation, and distributed production environments. She is proficient in C, C#, Python, PHP and has a history of tooling and platform work—designing service-graph platforms, staged deployment frameworks, and CI systems that improved operational visibility and reduced manual toil. An active open-source author in the interactive fiction community (creator of tools like Guncho and ZILF and contributor to Inform 7), she blends systems-level rigor with creative software craftsmanship. Outside core infra, she applies her engineering skills to real-time streaming and community tooling—building cloud chatbots, OBS extensions, and cost-effective media workflows for Twitch.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (104)
twitch10
javascript10
xmpp10
java10
editor9
programming-language9
ruby9
epic9
microsoft9
visual-studio-code9
homebrew9
electron9
typescript9
documentation9
googleapis9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
BanjoByTheBay/CUE4Parse
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 8 months
taradinoc/guncho
Nov 2009 - Dec 2016
Contributions:107 commits, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 1 month
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