Keavy mcminn is a senior engineer at github building apis, integrations, and interfaces that solve real problems for real people. Currently, github shows only the overall status of a jenkins build in such a pull request. Keavy mcminn, a software developer at github, talks about her personal experiences of tackling difficult challenges in the face of adversity, of persevering to make the seemingly impossible. Where other people want to incrementally fix something, you take a step back and say hang on, and then figure out. A trained sculptor, shes used her skills asking thoughtful questions to help a range of clients and domains in europe and the united. She worked at livingsocial and she is an independent consultant for ruby. We have added a new way of building on top of github. Better work through better feedback by keavy mcminn feedback is vital for us to improve our work, and yet we often overlook how best to.
Astonishingly, she still has time to train for and race in ironman distance triathlons. I am a software engineer who loves solving product and technical challenges, and ultimately shipping software projects, all the way over the line. But i have been thinking about leadership and what ive appreciated most from various bosses over the years. Keavy mcminn product features security enterprise customer stories. Twitter linkedin github who i want to work for 4 minute read on medium. Github s platform offers powerful authentication tools and apis to build the perfect tool to complete your. To continue to nurture the culture we want at github, weve found it useful to remind ourselves what we aim for when we communicate. Contribute to icrubyconferences development by creating an account on github. Webstock, 912 february 2016 our 10th birthday spectacular. I had the pleasure of working with keavy at github for the past. I led significant engineering projects at github, including github apps 1, 2, 3 and the checks api 1. The new github apps addressed complex issues around user access in a system where a user has one account, for both personal and work access, enabling applications to be firstclass actors in the system rather than have a bot impersonating a user, and making it easier to configure thirdparty services. Personal checklist for setting up a new mac s dev environment.
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