Dallas Mcneil
Senior Software Engineer at Maptek
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDallas Mcneil is a Senior Software Engineer in Adelaide with a decade of experience building high-performance systems and 3D graphics, currently leading work at Maptek. He specializes in systems programming and graphics via C, C++ and Rust, having led a Vulkan-based renderer replacement that significantly improved stability and performance in mine-planning software. Dallas combines practical low-level expertise—CPU architectures and close-to-metal optimization—with a strong correctness and usability mindset, drawing on honours research into CPU micro-architecture attacks. Earlier roles span AWS R&D and BI restoration, demonstrating an ability to move between cloud services and native performance engineering. He holds an advanced Computer Science degree with top grades from the University of Adelaide and consistently focuses on delivering simple, powerful, and performant software. An inquisitive engineer by nature, he brings research-honed rigor to production systems engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Degree of Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, First Class, Honours Degree of Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, First Class at University of Adelaide
Github Skills (9)
cubing10
timer10
linux9
macos9
windows9
electron8
desktop7
cross-platform7
jekyll4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DallasMcNeil/LIFX-Master
Dec 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
DallasMcNeil/Block-Keeper
Apr 2017 - Jul 2019
Cross platform desktop cubing timer
Contributions:16 releases, 190 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 3 months
electronwindowslinuxtimercubing
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