Magee Mooney Caliguire

I started in Washington, D.C., working in federal contracting. Working with several contractors, I gathered requirements, trained users, and implemented litigation systems at the Department of Justice and provided desktop support and LAN administration at the International Division of the National Science Foundation. Later, I worked on contracts for USAID and the Department of State. I designed and built learning systems and delivered technical training on commercial and proprietary applications on-site in the Caribbean and Central and South America to both U.S. Foreign Service personnel and Foreign Service Nationals.

From there I joined Akin Gump as a senior practice systems analyst. I built the firm's first intranet application, rescued a failing project at the eleventh hour by delivering a secure web application for an international client's trade specialists, managed by the firm's lobbyists, and specified and configured a clustered, load-balanced server platform with failover that supported litigation between two major U.S. companies. I also served as the firm's administrator for the secure collaboration workspace it shared with co-counsel in another city.

I then moved to California to become Regional IT Operations Manager at Nexus Management, leading a virtual team of technicians who often worked alone at client sites. I built a culture where they collaborated regularly to solve client problems, worked with the technical director to set consistent standards and practices across sites, and helped balance what clients wanted with the company's technical direction.

After that I spent nine years at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health as a programmer and analyst. I wrote the security procedures that kept research data HIPAA-compliant, replaced an aging data system with a web application, and managed the move of legacy data into it.

From Berkeley I joined an early-stage company as its first engineer, then spent a decade in engineering education at Hack Reactor and Galvanize. I taught software engineering, founded Hack Reactor's original remote part-time program, and later led infrastructure and engineering teams. At the program's peak I was responsible for more than 200 students and 20 staff. At Galvanize I led the rearchitecture and redesign of the LMS and the team's DevOps practices. I turned a tool built for a single program into a secure, multi-tenant platform that met FERPA requirements and supported all of our instructional divisions.

Today I'm Founding Engineer (fractional) at PawSpace, where I'm taking a contractor-built MVP toward production: infrastructure roadmap, product roadmap, and the DevOps practices behind a regular release cadence.

I'm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Generally, I work remotely, but I am delighted to meet or work on-site, as needed, to ensure quality results. I take on a small number of clients at a time, so each one gets real attention.