Shaun Dunning
Engineering Manager at Tanium
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaun Dunning is an Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading distributed teams and building performant, secure endpoint software across Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris and AIX. Currently managing the Endpoint team at Tanium, he blends low-level agent development with systems thinking to deliver reliable, high-performance client software. Previously he led SaaS console engineering at Red Hat and scaled product and people efforts as Director of Engineering at UserVoice, bringing deep full‑stack and operational experience. Shaun has a strong background in performance measurement and tooling from NetApp, where he drove automation, benchmarking and telemetry solutions to improve real-world customer outcomes. He also contributes to open-source Go tooling for background job processing, improving worker control and robustness. Based in Raleigh, Shaun pairs hands-on engineering with people leadership and a knack for turning complex performance challenges into practical, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Science, Computer Science, Masters in Science, Computer Science at Clemson UniversityBachelors of Science, Computer Science with Minor in Mathematics, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science with Minor in Mathematics at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
background-processing10
go10
concurrent10
backend10
back-end-development10
redis10
job-scheduling10
concurrency10
testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gocraft/work
Mar 2017 - Jul 2018
Process background jobs in Go
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 9 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Shaun primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the `gocraft/work` repository, a background job processing library. Their work focused on implementing features such as pausing workers and controlling concurrency, as well as addressing bugs related to reaper processes. The user's changes included modifications to core components like the worker and dead pool reaper, and also involved updates to the Redis interaction. Their contributions improved the robustness and control of the background job processing system.
golangbackground-processbackground-jobsjobsbackground
shdunning/dev_env
Sep 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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