Link Dupont
Scituate, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLink Dupont is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building robust Linux-native systems and backend services, currently shaping platform-level software at Red Hat. He blends systems-level expertise in C and Rust with higher-level development in Go, Swift, and Python to deliver precise, production-ready solutions for daemon, microservice, and provisioning infrastructures. His background at Apple includes designing PXE/netboot provisioning, privileged-task daemons analogous to sudo, and high-throughput procurement microservices—work that pairs strong architecture skills with hands-on coding. A disciplined engineer and mentor, he repeatedly leads teams to improve engineering practices while shipping complex systems. Based in Scituate, MA, he favors careful, methodical design decisions and has a track record of turning operationally sensitive features into maintainable, auditable software.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Management Information Systems, General at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (200)
vala10
command-line-tool10
tabletop10
qemu10
neo4j10
command-line-parser10
database-migrations10
json10
rhc10
redhat10
cassandra10
toml10
package-manager10
mongodb10
amazon10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
RedHatInsights/libygg
Mar 2023 - Apr 2024
libygg is a GObject-based library providing an API for applications to interact with yggdrasil
Contributions:21 reviews, 10 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year
RedHatInsights/yggdrasil
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:20 releases, 245 reviews, 434 commits in 2 years 3 months
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