Drew O'meara
Co-Founder, CTO at plan.tools
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDrew O'meara is a veteran software leader and co-founder who blends 25 years of realtime 3D and backend design experience with nine years in senior product-focused roles, currently serving as CTO of plan.tools in Austin. He architects and ships cross-platform Unity and Go systems for secure AV streaming and p2p collaboration, with deployments across desktop and mobile and a strong emphasis on crypto, CRDTs, and user-owned data. Drew’s background includes founding a profitable music-visualization company with millions of downloads and significant revenue, showing an ability to turn creative technical work into durable commercial products. A former US Navy nuclear submarine officer, he brings discipline, high-stakes operational leadership, and top-secret clearance experience to complex engineering challenges. He’s notable for unifying spatial UX across touch, VR/AR, and traditional PC while authoring architecture whitepapers that tie consensus and privacy into practical product designs. Drew pairs deep systems engineering with hands-on indie development and investor-facing product storytelling.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 3.7, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 3.7, Cum Laude at Cornell UniversityEmotional Intelligence, Leadership & Transformation Lab, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership & Transformation Lab at Wright
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Github Skills (13)
architecture9
design-patterns8
audio6
audiounit6
visual-studio-code6
ios6
image-loading6
endpoint6
spotify6
coreaudio6
image6
sdk5
streaming4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
plan-systems/design-docs
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
PLAN's design primer and architecture docs
Contributions:204 commits in 3 months
primerplanprimer-designdesign-systemdesign-patterns
drew55/hello-world
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
discordminecraftdiscord-botgodot
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