Fred Hornsey
Senior Software Engineer at Object Computing, Inc.
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolFred Hornsey is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years’ experience building distributed and embedded systems, currently at Object Computing, Inc. He specializes in cross-platform back-end development and is an active open-source contributor to the DOCGroup/ACE_TAO project, where he has implemented IDL versioning, annotation support, and memory-leak fixes. His career spans multiple roles at OCI and a recent stint at Unity Foundation, reflecting deep domain expertise in middleware and real-time systems. Based in St. Louis, he pairs pragmatic engineering with attention to low-level detail, often tackling compiler and tooling challenges that improve long-lived C++ codebases.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
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Github Skills (33)
c-language10
continuous-integration10
annotations10
cmake10
annotation-processing10
release-automation10
cprogramming-language10
opendds10
idl10
develop9
git9
multithreading9
parser9
parsing9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DOCGroup/ACE_TAO
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
ACE and TAO
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:136 reviews, 396 commits, 119 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Fred's contributions involve adding features and making changes to the IDL compiler for the ACE and TAO projects. Their work includes implementing IDL version management, adding parameters for annotation declarations, and supporting annotations on interfaces, operations, and other IDL constructs. The changes also involve code refactoring and fixes for existing code and memory leaks.
cppc-plus-plusframeworkacecorba
OpenDDS/OpenDDS-Debian
Jan 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 23 pushes in 6 years 2 months
debian-packageopenddsdebianddsubuntu
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