Gavin Whelan
Director Of Engineering at Aeon
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Whelan is a Director of Engineering based in Austin, Texas, with 12 years of hands-on experience building systems across Android, Haskell, embedded Linux, and backend C code. He combines startup DNA—co-founding and serving as CTO of Whiteboard Dynamics—with senior roles at LaunchDarkly and his current engineering leadership at Aeon, consistently moving teams from prototype to production. Gavin is an active open-source contributor, notably fixing Linux stack-overflow issues in the high-profile urbit project and improving both C and Hoon codepaths. Known for leveraging cutting-edge language techniques, he pairs deep systems knowledge (v4l2/Linux kernel work) with practical engineering management. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who still enjoys tinkering with embedded systems and low-level debugging.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (8)
c1710
version-control10
urbit10
git10
c1110
debug9
debugging9
build-automation8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
urbit/urbit
Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
An operating function
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily contributed to the codebase by fixing Linux-specific bugs related to stack overflow traces within the main and loop files, which are written in C. The commits also included refactoring and cleaning up variable names, and redefinition of certain functions. The developer also worked on merging master branches and added code in a number of files, including those written in Hoon.
nockrustoperating-systemp2phoon
gavwhela/ChezScheme
Aug 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
schemechezchez-scheme
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