Jack Byrne
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Byrne is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience and a track record of leading teams and shipping embedded and cloud services. He served as Development Team Lead at Livio (a Ford subsidiary), contributing to the open-source SmartDeviceLink project’s backend in C++ and integrating vehicle and cloud app services. Jack co-founded Stencil Labs and built a web service for automated marketing video generation, blending product thinking with hands-on engineering. He has since worked on distributed systems at DataStax and now at IBM, while also developing and deploying smart contracts on Ethereum-compatible chains in his spare time. Based in Detroit and trained in computer engineering at the University of Michigan, he brings a mix of automotive-grade embedded experience, backend systems expertise, and entrepreneurial creativity. An observable throughline is his comfort moving between low-level vehicle integrations and high-level web and blockchain services, making him effective across diverse stacks.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at University of Michigan College of Engineering
Github Skills (7)
json10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
api-design9
group-policy9
policies9
sdl7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
smartdevicelink/sdl_core
Apr 2015 - Apr 2022
SmartDeviceLink In-Vehicle Software and Sample HMI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 79 reviews, 707 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the backend of the project, with commits focused on implementing features related to the vehicle and cloud app services. Their work involved modifying policy table handling, implementing and integrating service APIs, and making changes to core functionalities within the SmartDeviceLink core. The user demonstrated familiarity with C++, JSON and the internal workings of the system.
connectivitysmartdevicelinksdlc-plus-plusvehicle
JackLivio/rpc_spec
May 2018 - Apr 2021
Spec for RPC messages
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 11 months
rpcspec
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