# Kevin McDonough

> Senior Software Engineer in Grid Technology

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinmcdonough1

I'm a Software Engineer focusing on electrical grid stability software, including DERMS, demand prediction and other distributed solutions. With institutional inertia resisting the radical upgrades our grid requires, it's critical to build trust through well executed pilot programs. I am continually exploring the diverse needs of  institutions and individual rate-payers alike to build systems that provide universal value.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ AutoGrid
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Redwood City, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Alignable
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
* Collaborate our graphic designer and product managers to design & build features for a high traffic Ruby on Rails social platform for small businesses.
* Design & implement framework & algorithm for suggesting connections between members to build tens of thousands of con. 
* Collect, analyze & interpret data on feature usage to identify technical issues & behavior patterns using Python (pandas), Looker & Amplitude.
* Utilize past trends to inspire new features & direct current projects to best support the use-cases of our members.
* Monitor site health via CloudWatch & custom dashboards to rapidly identify, triage, resolve & learn from site issues large and small during on-call hours.
* Interview individual business to discuss personal pain points and identify opportunities for our platform to create maximum value while minimizing the impact on busy day-to-day SMB operations.

### Software Engineer @ Placester, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
* Build interface for non-technical employees to resolve data issues, saving hundreds of engineering tickets a week.
* Standup services in AWS Elastic beanstalk to replace in-office server.
* Helped build & release mobile app version of website (Swift 3).


## Education
### B.S. / M.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics
Northeastern University

### High School
Maine School of Science and Mathematics


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kmacdough

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Last updated: 2026-03-31