Alex O'Neill
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlex O'Neill is a software engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience focused on infrastructure and systems. He has contributed to notable open-source projects, including enhancements to Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go (Bigtable and IAM) and building a configurable weather module for the popular py3status i3status wrapper. Alex combines backend systems work, API integrations, and code generation with practical attention to timezone and customization edge cases. He thrives on shipping reliable, production-ready fixes and features across cloud services and developer tooling, often tackling subtle integration and formatting challenges others overlook.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
apim10
weather-api10
python10
openweathermap10
open-weather-api10
bigtable10
go10
api10
google-cloud10
ias10
golang9
timezone8
slstatus8
stat8
zone8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ultrabug/py3status
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
py3status is an extensible i3status wrapper written in python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 8 PRs, 89 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development of a weather module for the py3status project, focusing on integrating with the OpenWeatherMap API. Their work involved implementing a Python-based module for retrieving weather data, including cloud cover, wind speed, and temperature, and formatting the output. They also incorporated timezone support and added options for customization with environment variables. Further contributions include enhancements like adding rain and snow information and improving the formatting of the output.
pythonttki3wmi3barextensible
googleapis/google-cloud-go
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 2 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions primarily focused on enhancements and bug fixes within the Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go, specifically concerning Bigtable and IAM. They added support for table-level IAM, addressing associated bugs. The user also performed code generation and made API updates, and fixed an IAM bug in a Bigtable integration test. These activities involved modifying core functionalities and ensuring proper integration within Google Cloud services.
golanggocloud-storageclient-librariescloud-datastore
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