David Mcnett
Co-Founder And President at distributed.net
Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Mcnett is a serial entrepreneur and versatile technologist with 25 years of experience building distributed systems, developer tools, and high-availability internet services from the ground up. As co-founder and former CIO of FlightAware and long-serving president/co-founder of distributed.net, he blends deep systems-level Unix expertise with product and organizational leadership. Comfortable shipping code in all-night sessions or translating technical tradeoffs into business terms on-site with customers, he has repeatedly turned research-grade distributed computing into practical, scalable services. A long history of hands-on roles—from building CI/CD at ActiveState to updating Go libraries for Minecraft—shows he stays current in open-source ecosystems while mentoring teams and founders. Based in Texas, he balances technical intensity with off-hours pursuits like ultramarathons and high-performance driving, signalling a rare combination of endurance, precision, and operational grit.
25 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Culver Academies
Stackoverflow
126reputation
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Github Skills (8)
golang10
minecraft10
go10
bt9
bots8
googlebot8
postgresql6
redirect6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Tnze/go-mc
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
Collection of Go libraries for Minecraft
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on updating the `go-mc` library to support newer Minecraft versions. Their contributions included bumping protocol versions, updating packet IDs, and attempting to parse new biome data formats. They demonstrated a good understanding of the Minecraft protocol and related data structures. The user's work ensured the library's compatibility with the latest Minecraft versions and included some refactoring related to data handling.
gominecraftyggdrasil-minecraft-loginminecraft-client-botnbt-parser
nugget/zeitgit
May 2009 - Dec 2014
git commit log aggregator and repository collaboration tools
Contributions:63 commits in 5 years 7 months
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