Joel Cunningham
Consulting Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Cunningham is a seasoned embedded and networking engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance TCP/IP systems and cloud data planes, currently a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle. He has deep C expertise across embedded RTOS and Linux, having led risky, large-scale packet-encapsulation migrations in OCI and implemented performance and protocol improvements in LwIP and bind9. Joel’s background spans wireless driver ports, Yocto/OpenEmbedded build work, and real-world optimizations that dramatically reduced connection churn for video playback, showing a knack for pragmatic, low-level systems tuning. He’s an active contributor to networking stacks with hands-on experience across DHCP, mDNS, RTP, and advanced TCP features (ABC, persist timer, vectored I/O). Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he combines relentless curiosity with a track record of safely rolling out distributed changes without customer impact. An under-the-radar strength: he repeatedly bridges kernel-level internals and product-facing features, turning RFC-level protocol knowledge into shipped, resilient systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Kansas State University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
c1710
memory-management10
wpa-supplicant10
c1110
networking10
sys9
embedded9
hostapd9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
qywx/lwip-contrib
Apr 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year 11 months
olsner/lwip
Aug 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:113 commits in 1 year 10 months
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