Brian O'neill
Director Of Product Management at Securonix
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian O'Neill is a seasoned product leader and security-focused technologist with 22 years of experience building cloud platforms and security products from startup to enterprise. As Director of Product Management at Securonix he leads cloud, MSSP, integrations, and UX efforts, and previously launched Mozilla's first paid VPN service, shaping long-term privacy and identity monetization strategies. He pairs hands-on engineering chops—contributing to projects like the filodb time-series database and the widely used Joda-Time library—with product leadership across Dell, Rapid7, LogRhythm, and SendGrid. Known for digging into low-level concurrency and memory issues in open-source systems, he brings uncommon depth in performance and security engineering to product roadmaps. Armed with degrees in computer science, finance, and a recent MS in Technology Commercialization, he blends technical rigor with go-to-market savvy. Located in Seattle, he consistently bridges developer-level execution and strategic product vision.
22 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Technology Commercialization, Master of Science - MS, Technology Commercialization at The University of Texas at AustinAssociate of Science - AS, Computer Science Information Systems, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science Information Systems at McNeese State University
Github Skills (15)
locking10
timeseries-database10
javas10
databases10
datetime10
locks10
performance-optimization10
java10
concurrency10
database10
scala10
thread-safety9
software-design9
memory-allocation9
api-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JodaOrg/joda-time
Dec 2003 - Sep 2009
Joda-Time is the widely used replacement for the Java date and time classes prior to Java SE 8.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:394 commits, 4 comments in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily worked on the Joda-Time library, making a series of changes across multiple classes. The commits indicate that the user was focused on code refactoring, specifically restructuring classes and methods. They also made comments and documentation adjustments to increase readability and explain new functionality to the other developers.
date-timejoda-timejava-datejava-sejava
filodb/FiloDB
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
Distributed Prometheus time series database
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:1 release, 69 reviews, 154 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to fixing thread safety issues, preventing memory leaks, and optimizing performance within the `filodb/filodb` repository, a time series database project. Their work focused on the low-level memory management aspects of the database, specifically addressing potential double-free errors, eliminating concurrent modification exceptions, and improving the handling of native memory allocation and deallocation. Furthermore, the user added a profiler and made changes to lock mechanisms within the codebase, indicating efforts to debug and improve concurrency.
time-series-databaseseries-databasevictoriametricsscaladatabase
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