Andy O'neill
Principal Software Engineer at Fortell
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAndy O'neill is a principal software engineer with 12 years of experience delivering backend systems at startups and growing tech-enabled health, e-commerce, and IoT platforms. He blends hands-on coding with strategic architecture, leading teams to build distributed, scalable services—from Python FastAPI platforms with FHIR interoperability to service-oriented architectures for multi-tenant SaaS. Currently at Chromatic, he is building backend systems for an innovative medical device, after leading patient-engagement platforms at Caire and the virtual-care infrastructure at Source Health. His career spans leadership roles at Harry's where he founded and grew the Core Engineering team, shipping a new checkout service in Scala/Play and driving reliability, security, and developer efficiency across the business. An astrophysics PhD from Columbia informs a rigorous, data-driven approach, complemented by earlier work in embedded systems and IoT at EnergyHub and Stickr. Based in New York, he remains a hands-on player-coach who still loves coding, reading, and writing.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys (Hons), Physics, MPhys (Hons), Physics at The University of ManchesterPhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at Columbia University in the City of New York
French
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Github Skills (200)
node-js10
postgresql10
jsonb10
databases10
bots10
closed10
dialogue-systems10
wails10
javascript10
mssql-server10
web-client10
mpd-client10
voice10
sql10
d110
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
harrystech/rails-pipeline
Jun 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:48 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 8 months
rails-applicationspipelinerailsdata-pipelinedistributed-collection
harrystech/dynosaur
Oct 2013 - Sep 2019
Contributions:86 commits, 11 PRs, 23 pushes in 6 years
herokuapiauto-scalingheroku-webconnections
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