Brendan O'hara
Pricipal Chief Architect (AI) at Red Hat
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan O'hara is a product-minded technology leader and founder with over 12 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web and SaaS products, and more than 20 years founding companies and shipping commercial software. As Founder & CEO of Functional Inc and Co-Founder/board member at Cura OS, he blends executive strategy with deep front-end expertise in modern JavaScript stacks (Ember, Ember Data, Firebase, D3, Node). He has led engineering teams for enterprise clients like McGraw Hill and Yamaha, launched consumer and B2B products, and closed a €1M angel round at a previous venture—evidence of both technical and commercial chops. An LBS MBA with a focus on strategy and entrepreneurship, Brendan also mentors founders through the Founder Institute and trains engineers, reflecting a talent for scaling teams as well as products. Not obvious from titles: he repeatedly pairs product design with developer training to accelerate adoption and productivity across organizations.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business, MBA Business at London Business School
English, German, Bulgarian
Github Skills (60)
ember-data10
ember-addon10
data-loading10
ember10
fetch10
firestore10
ember-paper10
google-analytics9
messaging9
rxjs9
typescript9
performance-monitoring9
material-design9
emberjs9
restful9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ViaCapita/moai
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:69 commits, 11 PRs, 22 pushes in 23 days
ViaCapita/firepaper
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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