David Mackey
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Mackey is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with 14 years of deep experience in software infrastructure, distributed systems, databases, and Linux internals. He has driven kernel- and systems-level work as a tech lead at Twitter and focused on Linux and scalability challenges at LinkedIn, bringing production-hardened expertise in performance, networking protocols, and security. His early work at Cisco on NX-OS and crypto core teams honed a pragmatic approach to high-throughput, resilient systems and IPsec/cryptography testing. Based in San Francisco and grounded in a Computer Engineering degree from Texas A&M, he blends low-level systems craftsmanship with large-scale service design. Notably, his career trajectory shows a pattern of tackling the hardest plumbing problems behind reliable platforms rather than surface-level product features.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (35)
docker10
proxy10
golang10
cloud-native10
ecosystem9
container9
ietf9
python9
moby9
assemble9
google-cloud9
go9
cli9
disque8
google-cloud-run8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tdmackey/CBL-Mariner
Apr 2024 - Jun 2025
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
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