Ash Connell
Software Engineer - Lead UI UX at Glow
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolAsh Connell is a seasoned full-stack software engineer and Lead UI/UX specialist with 11+ years building SaaS products and a web hobbyist since 1996. Based in Melbourne, he combines product-minded design with hands-on engineering—shaping market research platform Glow’s web app while owning product management and ops. He’s delivered end-to-end systems across web, mobile and streaming (including leading Australia’s early Cumulus streaming service) and is fluent in modern front-end stacks, React Native, Node.js, GraphQL and containerized DevOps. Known for simplifying complex problems into elegant, usable solutions, he brings a rare blend of aesthetic polish and backend robustness to fast-moving startups. A longtime freelancer turned startup enabler, he’s equally comfortable prototyping UX flows in Figma as driving CI/CD for production services.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Electrician, Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Electrician at WhitireiaDiploma in Digital Design and Multimedia, Diploma in Digital Design and Multimedia at Whitireia PolytechParaparaumu College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
mobx-state-tree10
threejs10
javascript-client10
physx10
keypress10
ui-components10
svg10
state-machine10
3d10
hotkeys10
browser10
static-site-generator10
ssg10
angularjs10
nodejs10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hyperfy-xyz/hyperfy
Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
World building for everyone
Contributions:1 release, 28 PRs, 397 pushes in 2 months
aicollaborativegame-enginemetaversemultiplayer
ashconnell/physx-js
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
PhysX for JavaScript
Contributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years 6 months
physicsemscriptenphysics-3djavascriptwebassembly
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