Jack Dunaway
SpaceX Software Manager Alum at Self-employed
McGregor, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarJack Dunaway is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building and managing high-performing engineering teams, most recently managing a senior team of eight at SpaceX. He brings deep expertise in ground and embedded software, distributed systems and networking—evidenced by hands-on contributions to the nanomsg project including a WebSocket transport and POSIX-focused refactors. A pragmatic architect and former founder, Jack combines product-minded systems design with operational rigor across mission-critical aerospace systems. Now based in McGregor, Texas, he is transitioning from industry to pursue math and physics teaching certification, aiming to translate real-world engineering and system-thinking into the classroom.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
c1710
socket-io10
low-level-programming10
socket10
websocket10
websockets-client10
c1110
websocket-client10
networking10
client-websocket10
cmake8
build-system8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nanomsg/nanomsg
Nov 2014 - May 2016
nanomsg library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 50 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the WebSocket transport implementation within the nanomsg library. Their work includes adding a new WebSocket transport, making path cross-platform, updating Autobahn commands, and refactoring CMSG headers for POSIX compliance, along with addressing several issues related to WebSocket functionality. These contributions suggest a focus on network protocol implementation and low-level socket programming within the nanomsg project. They also fixed several compiler warnings and addressed build system issues.
socketzeromqnanomsgmessaging
featherweight/ftw-kernel
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:345 pushes, 1 branch, 20 comments in 1 year 2 months
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