Jeff Lawson
Co-founder And Equity Partner at distributed.net
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Lawson is a veteran software architect and co-founder with 29 years building large-scale distributed systems, grid computing platforms, and high-volume real-time services. He designed and implemented core infrastructure—from kernel-level security features at Microsoft to the distributed clients and servers that powered distributed.net’s 50,000+ node volunteer compute network—and led product-grade APIs and streaming services at FlightAware. Equally at home in C/C++ and assembly as well as web and scripting languages, he blends low-level performance engineering with system-wide architecture and operational experience across Windows, Linux, BSD, and commercial Unix. Jeff pairs deep security and networking expertise with practical DevOps and test automation practices, and has a track record delivering multi-year cryptographic and algorithmic projects that won industry prizes. Based in Austin, he now splits his time between aviation entrepreneurship at Cowlin Aviation and ongoing open distributed computing initiatives, a combination that reflects both technical breadth and an unusual blend of software and real-world operational leadership.
29 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
json-parser10
mls10
motion-detection10
rtl-sdr10
rows10
launcher10
ais10
forwarding10
animated-gif10
dac10
tcl10
ads10
json10
qualcomm10
piaware10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bovine/fli2gif
Sep 1996 - Nov 2021
File converter of Autodesk FLIC (FLI/FLC) video files to Animated GIF
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 25 years 6 months
animationanimatedflicanimated-gifsgif
flightaware/tcl.gd
Feb 2011 - Oct 2021
Feature-complete Tcl interface to GD graphics drawing library
Contributions:3 releases, 21 commits, 6 PRs in 10 years 10 months
tclgraphics-libraryopengltcl-extensiondrawing-library
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