Software Engineering Portfolio – mcWankeAI — terminal v2026.3.1
How_Can_I_Help_Today_> what are you?
mcWankeAI is an open-source engineering leader currently in active development. Maintained since 2004. No end-of-life date announced. Runs best in high-trust environments with clear ownership models and access to good engineers who want to grow.
How_Can_I_Help_Today_> what is this page?
This is not a resume. Resumes summarize what happened. This is documentation — a changelog of what shipped and a manifest of what is installed. Two formats, two lenses, one engineering leader with 14+ years of commits to the main branch.
How_Can_I_Help_Today_> what will I find here?
The changelog covers the releases — platforms built, systems shipped, contracts delivered, and migrations survived. The manifest covers the components — the technologies, tools, and methodologies that power the current build.
How_Can_I_Help_Today_> how do I get more information?
The source code is available on request. Also known as: an interview.
How_Can_I_Help_Today_>
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mcWankeAI CHANGELOG
Release History
v2004.1.0 through v2026.3.1
Status: Active Development
License: People-First, MIT-adjacent
Current Build: Stable
Module 1 — Platform
“Things Millions of People Actually Use”
v2023.4.2
SOCIAL GRAPH GOES LIVE
Shipped full social feature set to millions of monthly active users. Profiles, watch history, watchlists, relationships, and reviews — all of it, from scratch.
v2023.2.1
MODERATION AT SCALE
Launched in-house moderation and content trust platform. User-generated content review tooling built and owned internally. No third-party dependency. Intentional.
v2022.7.0
DISCOVERY SURFACES SHIP
Led delivery of content discovery features across consumer platform. Cross-device, cross-platform, cross-functional chaos managed successfully.
v2022.3.2
CTV EVERYWHERE
Shipped consumer experiences across 8 CTV platforms simultaneously. Roku, AppleTV, AndroidTV, PlayStation, Xbox, LG, Samsung, Web. All of them. At once.
v2021.5.1
PERSONAL MEDIA PLATFORM
Led teams responsible for personal media features serving millions of monthly active users. Codec support expanded. Server management platform rebuilt.
v2021.2.0
AI/ML SUBTITLE SYNC
Shipped AI/ML-powered subtitle syncing across personal media platform. One of several ML integrations delivered during this cycle.
v2020.8.3
HEVC ENCODING
Delivered HEVC encoding support across personal media platform. Part of a broader codec expansion that improved playback quality across all supported devices.
Module 2 — Enterprise
“Nobody Died. Nothing Leaked. Delivered.”
v2019.6.1
FEDERAL CONTRACT DELIVERED
Technical lead on multi-million dollar federal government contract. Nationwide deployment. Strict compliance, security, and data governance requirements met. Failures: 0.
v2018.3.0
AZURE SAAS PLATFORM LAUNCH
Architected and launched cloud-connected enterprise SaaS platform on Azure. Full-stack delivery from design through production. C#/.NET + SQL Server.
v2017.9.2
ENTERPRISE RECORDING PLATFORM
Led delivery of enterprise-grade recording and media management platform. Deployed across government and institutional environments at scale.
v2017.4.1
CHANGE MANAGEMENT TEAM FOUNDED
Built cross-functional Change Management team to support new product launches. Documentation, training, and comms coverage across manufacturing, field service, installations, and support.
v2016.2.0
WCF SERVICE ARCHITECTURE
Led development of WCF service-oriented architecture and WPF desktop client applications. Integrated enterprise solutions across distributed systems and client-facing interfaces.
Module 3 — Infrastructure
“The Work Nobody Sees Until It Breaks”
v2022.5.0
GRAPHQL — FIRST ONE EVER
Partnered with staff engineering to launch first GraphQL interface org-wide. Drove adoption across client teams. Validated feasibility on constrained platforms.
v2021.8.1
REACT NATIVE MIGRATION
Led multi-year platform migration from native Kotlin/Swift to unified React Native platform with new cloud middleware and edge layer. Kept shipping throughout.
v2021.3.2
PUBLIC API RELEASE
Led release of formally documented and versioned public API. Third-party developers had been reverse-engineering it for years. We finally made it official.
v2020.6.0
STATSIG EXPERIMENTATION
Implemented A/B testing, feature flags, and holdback infrastructure across consumer platform. Data-driven decisions: enforced. HiPPO overrides: 0.
v2019.1.3
INCIDENT RESPONSE FRAMEWORK
Established incident response processes, postmortem culture, and SLA-oriented quality gates across engineering teams. Blameless. Actionable. Required.
Module 4 — Tooling
“Velocity Without the Chaos”
v2025.2.1
AI TOOLING ORG-WIDE ADOPTION
Drove adoption of GitHub Copilot and CodeRabbit across engineering org. Established responsible use practices. Accountability transferred to AI: 0%.
v2024.7.0
CLAUDE DAILY INTEGRATION
Personally integrated Claude into daily engineering workflows. Not because it was trendy. Because it works.
v2023.5.2
LINEAR MIGRATION
Led org-wide migration from GitHub Issues to Linear. Long-term SME. Standardized workflows across multiple teams. Previous tooling: not missed.
v2022.1.0
FIGJAM RETRO TEMPLATES
Built internal retrospective templates and documentation in FigJam. Adopted across engineering org. Continuous improvement culture: installed.
v2019.4.1
KUDOS BOT DEPLOYMENT
Built and deployed weekly Kudos Bot surfacing team member impact. Engineers recognized by peers automatically. Manager spotlight taken: 0%.
Module 5 — Legacy
“Archaeological Digs With a Deadline”
v2012.8.2
IBIS PLATFORM DELIVERY
Built enterprise logistics platform supporting fleet operations for one of the largest inland waterway transportation companies in the US. Real-time data acquisition deployed on operating vessels.
v2011.3.0
REAL-TIME VESSEL DATA
Built data acquisition software deployed on operating towboats transmitting real-time operational data to central systems. Early IoT before IoT was a word anyone used seriously.
v2009.6.1
LEGACY MODERNIZATION
Migrated legacy mainframe systems to VB/.NET. First enterprise data warehouse architected and delivered from scratch.
v2009.2.0
ORACLE ETL PIPELINE
Built Oracle-based ETL pipeline and data warehouse from the ground up. Foundation for all reporting and analytics that followed.
v2007.4.3
INTELLIGENT DEVICE SOFTWARE
Led software development for intelligent consumer hardware products. Financial system integrations. ARM7 board software interfaces. Retail and food service deployment at scale.
v2006.1.2
ASCENT PRODUCT LINE LAUNCH
Conceived, specified, and delivered 0-to-1 product line from concept through manufacturing. First-year results: significant. Lessons learned: many.
KNOWN ISSUES
— Occasionally over-communicates
— Cannot stop building retro templates
— Will show up to every incident
— Meetings may become unexpectedly useful
— Psychological safety: non-optional
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mcWankeAI COMPONENT MANIFEST
Technology Traders Emporium
Parts Catalog v2026
Version: v2026.3.1
Classification: Leadership-Grade
Compatibility: Most Engineering Orgs
Methodologies & Practices
// the ways of working that actually work.
  • Agile / Scrum
  • Incident Response
  • Postmortem Culture
  • OKR Planning
  • A/B Testing & Feature Flags
AI & Developer Tooling
// the accelerants. not the replacements. accountability: still 100% human.
  • GitHub Copilot
  • CodeRabbit
  • Claude
  • Jupyter Notebook
Project Management & Collaboration
// every tool has been used. some were even used correctly. all were used to build team efficiency.
  • Linear
  • Jira
  • Kanban
  • Asana
  • GitHub Issues & Projects
  • Trello
  • Notion
Languages & Technologies
// the building blocks — Areas of leadership or direct development. all respected.
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Kotlin
  • Swift
  • iOS / Android
  • Roku BrightScript
  • C# / .NET
  • VB.NET
  • Python
  • GraphQL
  • REST APIs
  • HTML / CSS
  • SQL
Frameworks & Ideas
// the mortar holding the blocks togeter. strength to build bigger and better
  • API driven Development
  • Backend-For-Frontend Development
  • Cross-Platform Shared Code Modules
  • Unit Testing
  • CI / CD Focus
  • Feature Flag Development
  • WCF / WPF
Database & Infrastructure
// the pipes that keep everything running. the platforms that hosted and routed the data
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Postgres
  • MongoDB
  • MariaDB
  • MySQL
  • InfluxDB
  • Oracle
  • SQLite
  • RabbitMQ
  • SignalR
Data, Analytics, & Integrations
// numbers were looked at. decisions were made. dashboards were built.
  • BigQuery – Data & Queries
  • Looker – Dashboards & Data
  • Springserve – Premium Ads
  • Statsig – Experimentation & A/B Testing
  • Grafana – Dashboards
  • Iterable – External Email Communications
  • Sendmail – Selfhosted Email Communications
  • The Hive – Automated UGC Reviews
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
RAM: High — context switching across teams,
     timezones, and stakeholders
CPU: Multi-core — parallel processing of
     people problems and technical decisions
STORAGE: 14+ years of pattern matching
         and knowing which battles to pick
NETWORK: Global — 10+ countries, fully
         distributed, no packet loss
BATTERY: Sustained — present at every
         incident regardless of hour
COMPATIBILITY NOTES
Pairs well with:
— Engineers who want to grow
— Product teams who want a real partner
— Organizations that value craft
— Problems that actually matter

Known conflicts:
— Low-trust environments
— Unclear ownership models
— Cultures where failure isn’t survivable
— Meetings with no agenda and no end time

Portfolio

People
Engineering

A human, people-first approach to engineering and management. AKA: How to build great engineering teams. How can I help?

Software Engineering

Projects, results, and a few honest failures from a career building software that actually shipped with great teams.

Hardware
Engineering

Professional and personal projects around hardware, sensors, and low-voltage electronics.

Project
Engineering

Some of my personal projects to share with the world. Code, designs, and a lot of fun.

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