Dan Dickey
President at Continental Electronics Corporation
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarDan Dickey is a seasoned technology executive and President of Continental Electronics Corporation with 11 years of hands-on experience blending leadership and engineering judgment. Based in Dallas, he combines operational oversight with practical software development skills, contributing to open-source projects such as the well-regarded OpenCPN chartplotter where he focused on back-end stability, threaded downloads, and nautical chart rendering fixes. His background reflects a rare mix of executive responsibility and attention to low-level code quality—fixing warnings, improving depth conversion logic, and resolving chart grouping issues. Dan is comfortable shipping pragmatic fixes that improve reliability in safety- and mission-critical domains. He brings a steady, detail-oriented approach to scaling systems and teams while staying engaged in technical problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
debug9
wxwidgets8
file-handling7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OpenCPN/OpenCPN
Feb 2015 - May 2021
A concise ChartPlotter/Navigator. A cross-platform ship-borne GUI application supporting * GPS/GPDS Postition Input * BSB Raster Chart Display * S57 Vector ENChart Display * AIS Input Decoding * Waypoint Autopilot Navigation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 92 commits, 183 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the application. Their work involved fixing typos and adding functionality to the depth conversion and other functions, specifically within the `s57chart.cpp` and `s52plib.cpp` files. The user also implemented fixes related to threaded file downloads and eliminated several warnings. Further contributions included addressing chart grouping issues, adding plugin name tags to log messages, and merging updates from the upstream repository.
shiprastergarminwaypointgps-tracker
transmitterdan/wxWidgets
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:94 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
wxwidgetswindowsgui-librarylinuxreport
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