Connor Dunn
CIO & Co-founder at Found
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Dunn is a pragmatic full-stack engineering leader and co-founder with 17 years of experience building product-focused systems from mobile SDKs to banking infrastructure. As CIO and co-founder of Found in San Francisco he blends hands-on development with strategic delivery to simplify taxes and finance for the self-employed, after leading engineering teams at Square and building cross-platform tooling at Trigger.io. Comfortable across languages and layers, Connor prefers the right tool for the job and has a track record shipping fast in small teams and scaling to customer needs. An active open-source contributor, he improved proxy and encoding behavior in the widely used http.rb Ruby client, highlighting attention to protocol correctness and real-world interoperability. His background includes enterprise-grade internships at IBM and a BSc in Computer Science from Warwick, reflecting both practical product instincts and formal training.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Warwick
Github Skills (8)
rspec10
http-client10
proxy10
proxy-server10
proxies10
ruby10
http9
encoding9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
httprb/http
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Connor contributed to the `http` Ruby gem by implementing features related to proxy connections. They added support for HTTPS connections through proxies, including handling CONNECT requests and proxy authentication. The user also made changes to ensure consistent encoding and implemented features related to handling character sets in HTTP responses. These changes improve the functionality and robustness of the HTTP client.
http-clientruby
Connorhd/TabCloud
Sep 2010 - May 2011
Store browser window sessions in the cloud
Contributions:28 commits, 3 comments in 7 months
javascriptbrowserbrowser-windowwindow
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