Owen Mooney
Systems Engineer at Hudson River Trading
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Mooney is a hybrid software and systems engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure at low-latency trading and hyperscale tech firms, currently ensuring Hudson River Trading’s services run reliably from his base in Ireland. He spent over three years as a production engineer at Facebook, where he focused on keeping large distributed systems healthy and performant, and earlier applied cyber threat intelligence skills during internships at AIB and Facebook. Comfortable in both backend code and operational tooling, he contributes to open-source networking tooling—adding robust DHCPv4 handling, user-class parsing, and edge-case fixes to a Go-based DHCP library. Known for pragmatic refactors and attention to protocol quirks (including Microsoft non-compliance), he blends deep systems understanding with hands-on software delivery.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at St. Conleth's CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
Github Skills (5)
dhcp10
go10
parse9
option-parser9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
insomniacslk/dhcp
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
DHCPv6 and DHCPv4 packet library, client and server written in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Owen primarily contributed to the development of DHCPv4 functionality within the Go-based DHCP library. Their work involved implementing the User Class option, including parsing, serialization, and associated unit tests. They also added support for the Bootfile name and TFTP server name options and refactored existing code to handle edge cases and improve overall robustness. Further improvements included the addition of modifiers to the DHCPv4 packet structure and handling of Microsoft non-compliant user classes.
golangframedhcpv6client-librarydhcpd
mooneyow/tftp
May 2019 - Dec 2019
TFTP server and client library for Golang
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
golangclient-librarytftptftp-server
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