Johnny Cao
Engineer - Aerospace Software Apps III at Blue Origin
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohnny Cao is an aerospace software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building embedded, flight and ground systems, currently contributing to Blue Origin’s New Glenn software stack. He specializes in C/C++ avionics development, autonomy wrappers, and end-to-end product delivery under DO-178C/DO-278A and other regulatory frameworks, while also creating Python/MATLAB tooling and Ansible deployments for test and ground operations. His background spans low-level firmware and radio drivers to cloud-accessible base station tooling, reflecting a rare full-stack fluency across hardware-constrained embedded systems and large-scale flight software. Johnny’s long-running open-source work on high-availability server-side plugins demonstrates a pragmatic focus on robustness, low-latency design and maintainability. Based in Seattle and finishing a Computer Engineering degree at Northeastern, he aims to combine aerospace, embedded software and controls to build systems that tangibly benefit and inspire everyday people. An underappreciated strength is his track record automating testing and simulation infrastructure that accelerated verification cadence for flight-critical releases.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Liberty Sr High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
French, English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (16)
plugin-development10
command-line-tool10
command-line-interface10
javas10
minecraft-forge10
bukkit10
essentials10
ess10
spigot10
java10
plugin10
command-line10
github9
configuration-management9
debug8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
EssentialsX/Essentials
Mar 2018 - Dec 2019
The modern Essentials suite for Spigot and Paper.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 19 PRs, 98 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Johnny contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the EssentialsX Spigot plugin. Their work included addressing issues related to AFK timers, teleportation, and command cooldowns. They also implemented features like allowing single-word AFK messages and restricting gamemode changes for jailed players. The commits demonstrate a focus on server-side logic and interaction with the Minecraft server environment.
playersdiscordessentials-chatspigotessentials-core
caojohnny/caojohnny.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jul 2023
Contributions:75 pushes in 8 years 6 months
reactjsreact
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