Dave Jennings
Lead Software Engineer at Mission Systems Pty Ltd
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Jennings is a hands-on Lead Software Engineer based in Sydney with three decades of software development experience spanning robotics, telecomms, finance, retail, science and entertainment. He combines technical leadership with deep C++, Python, Linux/Unix and networking expertise, routinely shipping systems from embedded avionics and SDH switches to high-volume web stores and VFX tooling. His career blends startup grit—building trading platforms and online stores—with enterprise-scale work at Yahoo and Optus and research-grade software for robotics and radio astronomy. Comfortable managing teams and founding development offices, he has a track record of turning complex, multidisciplinary problems into reliable production systems. Known for preferring management roles that remain technically involved, he still codes across networks, databases and web backends. An early career background in physics and electrical engineering gives him a systems-first perspective often applied to pragmatic engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (65)
robotics10
cpp9
ansible8
rendering8
python8
computer-graphics8
blender8
ssh7
cuda7
visualization7
arm6
automation6
opengl6
gpu6
3d6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mission-systems-pty-ltd/snark
Feb 2020 - Feb 2025
forked from https://gitlab.com/orthographic/snark
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 261 pushes in 5 years 1 month
mission-systems-pty-ltd/comma
Feb 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:115 pushes, 65 branches, 1 comment in 5 years 2 months
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