Cam O'connell
Director Dev Designer at Merriment
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolCam O'connell is a Director, Dev Designer with 13 years blending creative direction, UX and front-end engineering across agencies and his own studio in Wellington. He leads product-facing design and development at Merriment after a long tenure as a creative frontend developer at Resn, turning ambitious marketing briefs into polished, interactive web experiences. Skilled in UX, UI, web design, development and the Adobe Creative Suite, he pairs visual craft with production-grade front-end code. An open-source contributor to a modern SVG animation library, he focuses on practical improvements—like erase and destroy behaviors—that make animations more reliable in real projects. Trained in design at the University of Otago, he brings a community-minded, service-oriented approach to client work and team leadership.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Design, Bachelor of Arts, Design at University of Otago
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
svg10
front-end-development10
animation10
animate10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
merri-ment/lazy-line-painter
Jan 2013 - Sep 2015
Lazy Line Painter - A Modern JS library for SVG path animation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 123 commits, 52 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Cam contributed primarily to the front-end development of the "lazy-line-painter" project, a JavaScript library for SVG path animation. Their commits focused on updating and simplifying existing code, likely related to animation logic and visual presentation. The changes included enhancements to the "erase" functionality, and the addition of the "destroy" method to the library.
animationjs-librarysvgjavascriptpainter
camoconnell/audio-web-worker
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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