Shaun Lippy
Chief Technology Officer at Dark Unicorn
Middleburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolShaun Lippy is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with over two decades of experience designing, developing, and delivering large, complex software and systems for DoD, IC, and commercial customers. He has repeatedly built and led cross-disciplinary, global teams—guiding products from inception through operational transition and ATO hardening—while maintaining a hands-on systems and software architecture practice. Shaun combines domain expertise in cyber, electronic warfare, and satellite communications with practical program leadership, having steered multi‑million dollar programs, DARPA transitions, and risk management efforts. He is equally comfortable in the lab, on customer sites, and in the boardroom, mentoring junior engineers and shaping technical roadmaps. A lifelong student and self-described “nerd AND geek,” he actively pursues new technologies and formal study (including a Johns Hopkins master’s in Space Systems Engineering) to keep teams ahead of emerging threats and opportunities. Notably, his background spans low-level platform ports to cloud-native service infrastructures, giving him rare breadth from device to enterprise.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree (with Honors) Computer Science and History, Bachelor's degree (with Honors) Computer Science and History at Bucknell UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at South Western Senior High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignN/A Biology Physics Mathematics Chemistry Computer Science, N/A Biology Physics Mathematics Chemistry Computer Science at Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
spectrum6
digital-signal-processing5
audio-effect5
electrical-engineering5
mls5
audio4
signal-processing4
signal3
cluster-computing3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lonelycode/go-crypto
Oct 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 3 months
harrylippy/P2-continuous-control
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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