Donald Cupp
Senior Systems Engineer at Advance2000
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorDonald Cupp is a Senior Systems Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and hardening Linux-based operating systems for defense, banking, energy, and healthcare customers. He specializes in OS build frameworks, secure-boot and tamper-resistant platforms, and has earned a rare signed SHIM from Red Hat/Debian/Microsoft after peer review for custom SecureBoot passage. Donald has led private cloud and appliance architecture efforts that replaced costly components with open-source alternatives, delivering measurable savings and operational resilience. He maintained and recompiled core subsystems across networking, kernel, authentication, and display managers to improve performance and reliability at scale. An active open-source contributor, his GitHub work on thin-client firmware and system images has over 800 stars and reached millions of installations worldwide. Based in Colorado Springs, he combines deep low-level engineering with practical product integration and DoD-grade security expertise.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
firmware10
embedded10
device-driver10
sys10
system-configuration9
network-configuration8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Thinstation/thinstation
Feb 2012 - Jan 2023
A framework for making thin and light Linux based images for x86 based machines and thinclients.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:2035 commits, 4 PRs, 74 pushes in 11 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Donald appears to be working on firmware development for an x86-based thinclient. Their contributions involve low-level programming, device driver interaction, and the development of firmware for hardware components like network adapters, printers, and USB devices. Their work also includes modifying configuration files and building tools for managing boot processes and system configuration, indicating work with the hardware and operating system interaction for the targeted device type.
lightmachineslinuxthinx86
Thinstation/thinstation-ng
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
A framework for making thin and light Linux based images for thin clients, kiosks and servers. The Next Generation
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 3 PRs in 3 months
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