# Riley McGee

> Staff Software Engineer at Thrive

Location: Greater St. Louis, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rileymcgee

I'm a polyglot software engineer with a passion for problem-solving.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Thrive Global
Jan 2023 – Present
Building Backend Platform things

### Senior Software Engineer @ Clearcover
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Led the payments team and played an instrumental role in designing, implementing, and successfully releasing key features. I also made valuable contributions to our service chassis / builds / shared libraries and the customer data/identity platform.

### Software Engineer @ Label Insight
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Extended the ingestion pipeline which processed and transformed consumer packaged goods labeling for attribution

### Senior Software Developer @ Lumen Technologies
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater St. Louis Area
Enhanced Public & Edge Cloud offerings to enable on-demand compute in over 15 data centers globally. 

Helped design, implement, and release multiple solutions to production such as: 
- virtual firewall, which reduced costs by replacing hardware firewall devices in all data centers with software defined networking running on generic compute
- network storage, enabling self-service consumption of block, file, and object storage
- load balancer as a service, eliminating licensing costs associated with load balancer appliances
- core compute (virtual machine) provisioning platform improvements focusing on lowering operational expenses by increasing stability and reducing urgent incidents 

Polyglot environment using a wide variety of technologies.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Information Technology; minor in Computer Science
University of Missouri-Columbia
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22