Rick Mcconney
Principal Software Engineer at AT&T
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRick Mcconney is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience designing and delivering real-time, user-focused software across telecommunications, IoT, and robotics. He has led rapid proof-of-concept development for SIP/VoIP, IP TV, and end-to-end IoT solutions at AT&T, Alcatel‑Lucent and Nortel, and earlier built a 3D laser guidance system for robotic arc welding. Comfortable in full-stack Java and JavaScript development, Rick pairs deep protocol and network-monitoring expertise (SNMP, SIP, SOAP) with hands-on cloud and database experience (AWS, Azure, MongoDB, InfluxDB). He excels at rapid prototyping and bridging multidisciplinary teams—turning complex telecom and embedded requirements into practical, demonstrable systems. Fluent in both GUI/UX and low-level real-time design, he also brings a formal background in AI and image processing from McGill, which informs his pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Electrical Engineering, Masters, Electrical Engineering at McGill University
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Github Skills (15)
polar10
plotter10
octoprint9
graph8
firmware8
3d-printer8
3d-printing7
printer7
android-intent6
flags6
javascript6
browser-cache6
hat3
raspberry3
raspberry-pi2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RickMcConney/PenPlotter
Aug 2015 - Dec 2018
Polar graph controler that uses repetier firmware. Inspired by work at http://www.polargraph.co.uk
Contributions:9 releases, 74 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 4 months
repetierfirmwarepolargraphplotterpolar
RickMcConney/mxd
Jun 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:30 releases, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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