Kevin McDonald

I'm a software engineer. I'm interested in data visualization, gRPC, and Internet infrastructure: backbone routers, fiber optic cables, internet exchanges, etc. Ex-Apple.

Denmark Joined on Jul 29, 2019 https://kmcd.dev

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B.S. of Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas

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Senior Software Engineer

Primarily Go and Python... but I also have a good deal of experience with Elixir, Clojure, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby

... Danish.

Data visualization of the physical internet: Internet exchanges, fiber optic cables, submarine cables, datacenters, gRPC, ConnectRPC

Happy to chat about fiber optics, network automation or just anything related to programming

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Kevin McDonald

Aug 20

FauxRPC

#grpc #api #testing #protobuf

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Kevin McDonald

Apr 30

Tracking the Wins

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Kevin McDonald

Apr 16

Making Greppable Code

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Kevin McDonald

Apr 9

Building APIs with Contracts

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Apr 5

Dropping Unknown Fields in ConnectRPC

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Kevin McDonald

Mar 28

RESTless: Web APIs After REST

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Kevin McDonald

Mar 21

Making gRPC more approachable with ConnectRPC

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FauxRPC

Tracking the Wins

Making Greppable Code

Building APIs with Contracts

Dropping Unknown Fields in ConnectRPC

RESTless: Web APIs After REST

Making gRPC more approachable with ConnectRPC