I’m Troy McConaghy and this is my old, archived personal website. It has my old personal blog and various pages about me and my projects. My new blog and website is at troymcconaghy.ca.
My Interests
🥾 walking and hiking, and learning about the plants I see
📖 reading history, biography, science fiction, science nonfiction and mystery
🎧 listening to podcasts about history, science and technology
🛫 travelling
🌿 botany
🚣 kayaking
🧮 applied mathematics
⚛️ physics
🪐 astrodynamics
💻 computer programming
A Brief Bio
Phase 1
I grew up on a Saskatchewan farm with pigs, carrots, brothers, marigolds, cows, barley, trees, parents, wheat, kittens, and snowstorms.
My first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer. My parents got it for me and my brothers at Radio Shack. You could write programs in BASIC. It was awesome.
The local libraries were okay; they had many books by Isaac Asimov. There was no World Wide Web. I was also in Scouts, piano, 4-H and hockey.
Phase 2
I studied applied mathematics, physics, and aerospace engineering in university. I put more details on a separate page about my formal education.
As a student, I had jobs with the Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, the Defence Research Establishment Ottawa, COM DEV, Kingston’s Defence Operations Research group, Analog Design Automation, and Purdue University. (I was a research assistant and also taught math courses at Purdue.)
Phase 3
After grad school, I was involved with many projects on the web and in the virtual world Second Life. I developed software, produced exhibits, organized/promoted events, wrote blog posts, did research, managed websites, and various other things. Most of it was related to science or engineering.
Phase 4
I worked at BigchainDB GmbH (formerly ascribe GmbH) in Berlin, Germany from mid-2015 until July 2019. They are the main company behind Ocean Protocol.
Phase 5
I returned to Canada and started on something new…
Bonus Material
Some of my siblings and relatives have associated websites:
- McConaghy Farms
- Trent McConaghy’s website (my brother)
- Ocean Protocol (my brother)
- Peter Lucas Project Management (my cousin)