Senior Full-stack Engineer & AI Specialist

Douglas McKinley is a Seattle-based full-stack engineer open to remote, hybrid, or in-office roles, with a strong preference to relocate. He possesses expertise in full-stack web development (Postgres, Express, React, Node), cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), browser automation (Selenium), and Windows desktop applications (Tkinter, PyInstaller). Currently operating as a consultant, he handles technical implementation and customer-facing responsibilities, comfortable partnering with sales and non-technical stakeholders, serving clients from startups to aerospace manufacturers. He prefers a full-time W2 role. His background includes electronics and hardware, DO-160 compliant aircraft electronics testing, circuit design, and electrical bench tools. More recently, his experience includes full-stack web applications and AI wrappers, encompassing training and deploying supervised classification models. He previously served as a Patent Examiner in AI (Art Unit 2121) at the USPTO. A significant part of his career involves teaching computer science at Central Washington University, where he taught core CS courses, authored four original courses, and achieved the highest student evaluation scores in the department.