Shaun Cox
Firefighter EMT at Carver Fire Department
Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolShaun Cox is a Principal Software Engineer and veteran systems architect with decades of low-level networking and performance-focused development experience, now favoring Rust after a long C/C++ career. Based in Minnesota, he designs high-performance network transports and protocol stacks, with a track record at Microsoft building TCP/IP stacks, real-time A/V transport, and scalable backend systems for communications platforms. He pairs deep technical rigor—state machines, asynchrony, concurrency, and DMA-aware IPC—with a pragmatic drive for correctness and simplicity over flashy UI. Outside of his remote engineering work he serves his community as a paid-on-call Firefighter/EMT, bringing calm under pressure and real-world incident experience that informs his reliability-first mindset.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Stackoverflow
351reputation
22kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (47)
visual-studio-code10
electron10
microsoft10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
editor10
zipkin10
prometheus10
api10
sdk10
visual-studio10
vscode10
jaeger10
opentelemetry10
logging10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shaun-cox/opentelemetry-rust
May 2023 - Feb 2024
My proposed contributions to OpenTelemetry API and SDK for Rust
Contributions:171 pushes, 64 branches in 9 months
shaun-cox/tracing-opentelemetry
Jun 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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