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Joey McKenzie

Product engineer with a passion for tinkering, building web applications, distributed systems, and the occasional thing I probably should not have over-engineered. I started my career analyzing Navy shipbuilding costs, which is a sentence that still surprises me. I've worked in a lot of language ecoystems. These days I mostly write PHP and TypeScript and try to leave codebases better than I found them.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer IIGivebutter
Aug 2025 — Present

Building things with PHP, Laravel, TypeScript, and React at a nonprofit fundraising platform that genuinely cares about doing good in the world. I love my job and the people I work with, which I understand is a rare and slightly suspicious thing to say.

Senior Software EngineerDayforce
Jun 2024 — Aug 2025

C# and .NET in the HR and workforce management space. Enterprise security at scale is a humbling domain, and I have the threat models to prove it.

Senior Software EngineerNational Funding
Jan 2022 — Jun 2024

C#, .NET, and AWS in the small business lending space. Serverless, Terraform, and more financial acronyms than any one person should have to know. I now have opinions about loan origination software.

Software EngineerMediKeeper
Dec 2020 — Jan 2022

C#, .NET, and Vue in the health and wellness space. Corporate wellness turns out to be a real industry, which I did not fully appreciate until I was neck-deep in it.

Applications DeveloperSierra Pacific Industries
Jan 2020 — Dec 2020

.NET and Angular in the lumber and manufacturing space. Also some IBM RPG, briefly and involuntarily. I have made my peace with it.

Associate Software EngineerVSP Vision Care
Jun 2018 — Jan 2020

Java, Spring Boot, and Angular in the optical insurance space. My first enterprise job, where I learned that healthcare billing is its own entire universe with its own rules, customs, and ancient dialects.

Operations Research AnalystSAIC (formerly Engility)
Sept 2016 — May 2018

R, Python, SQL, and .NET in the federal defense contracting space. I started my career building cost models for Navy shipbuilding programs, which is still the most interesting sentence I have ever had to explain at a party.

Education

B.S. Astronomy, Minor in Mathematics San Diego State University
2011 — 2016

What I vibe with

Will yap about (and pays my bills)
PHPLaravelTypeScriptReactRustInertia.js
What previously paid my bills
C#.NETAzureAngularVueNext.jsJavaSpring Boot
The glue nobody thanks (that also pays my bills)
AWSDockerTerraformGitHubKubernetes