Danny Kilkenny
Founder at ThrottleUp
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Kilkenny is a founder and software engineer with nine years of experience building accessible, production-grade tools and platforms from startup hardware to enterprise web apps. Based in Cleveland, he led a full rewrite of BoxCast’s admin platform from AngularJS to Vue.js, improved operational reliability through on-call practices and observability, and shipped automation that materially reduced fulfillment errors. At NASA Glenn he contributed to OpenMDAO and Dymos CI improvements, data visualizers, and was runner-up for NASA Software of the Year—work that spans scientific computing, visualization, and reproducible testing. Early roles in CFD and hardware startups honed his ability to turn messy experimental data into robust databases and automated pipelines. He combines hands-on backend development (including Jupyter-focused contributions to the OpenMDAO ecosystem) with product-minded leadership and a mission to make technology accessible to all. Pragmatic, cross-disciplinary, and customer-focused, he thrives where engineering meets real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at The University of Akron
English
Github Skills (7)
jupyter-notebook10
python10
scientific-computing9
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
tabulate8
data-visualizations8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMDAO/OpenMDAO
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
OpenMDAO repository.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 258 commits, 138 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Danny appears to be primarily focused on implementing features related to an OpenMDAO framework with emphasis on Jupyter Notebook functionality. The commits demonstrate the development of a new `NotebookMode` class, integration of a table rendering library, and additions to support listing of inputs and outputs in Jupyter Notebook environments. Additionally, the user has made changes to the visualization tools with support for loading specific cases.
openmdaonasaframeworkoptimization
DKilkenny/OpenMDAO
May 2019 - May 2022
OpenMDAO 2.0 repository.
Contributions:36 PRs, 944 pushes, 120 branches in 3 years
openmdao
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