David Snowdon
Non Executive Director at MP Space
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolDavid Snowdon is a serial founder and engineering leader with 13+ years delivering ultra-low-latency network hardware and software for financial markets, having built and scaled Metamako from concept to acquisition by Arista Networks. He combines systems-level expertise—FPGA, embedded OS, circuit board design and algorithmic latency optimisation—with hands-on product delivery and supply-chain experience that produced industry-leading layer‑1 switches used by exchanges and top trading firms. Equally comfortable mentoring teams or owning execution, he has steered technical strategy as a board member and director while continuing to advise cutting-edge ventures in clock synchronisation and space engineering. A PhD-trained systems thinker who once helped a solar race team set a Guinness World Record, he brings rare depth across firmware, hardware and high-performance networking.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at Cranbrook SchoolUNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (27)
disable10
wireshark9
fpga8
tshark8
ntp8
packet-capture8
verilog8
private-key7
gitlab7
zynq7
git-repository7
protocols7
network-automation6
testing6
pytest5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
worldsolarchallenge/wscearth
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
Google earth viewer for WSC data.
Contributions:39 releases, 5 reviews, 45 PRs in 21 days
aristanetworks/pytest-netdut
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
A pytest library for testing software on network devices.
Contributions:6 releases, 11 reviews, 7 commits in 2 months
software-testingpythonnetwork-devicesnetwork-automationtesting
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