Chris O'donnell
Staff Frontend Engineer, Platform
New York, United States
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Top SchoolChris O'donnell is a Staff Frontend Engineer with 12+ years of experience building high-throughput fintech and payments interfaces and the platform tooling that makes teams productive. He leads frontend architecture and delivery—most recently owning fintech UI and developer experience at LeafLink where his work supported millions of daily transactions, cut CI times by ~76%, and shipped a React Native banking app from zero to production. Comfortable across React, Vue, React Native and TypeScript monorepos, he combines product-minded UX work with platform engineering: design systems, CI/CD automation, MFA, and CDN-based hosting migrations. A pragmatic mentor and cross-team leader, he established frontend standards and Kanban processes that scaled across multiple pods. Chris also champions AI-driven developer enablement and modern DX (Tailwind, Vite, GitHub Actions), and maintains a long history of freelance and open-source contributions to keep a broad view of web tooling and delivery. Based in New York, he balances shipping business-critical features with building foundations that accelerate engineering velocity.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ruby on Rails for Developers, Ruby on Rails for Developers at General AssemblyBachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Manhattan University
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Github Skills (200)
jquery-plugin10
automation10
publish10
rest-api10
javascript10
npm-scripts10
applescript10
api10
rest10
js10
cli10
surveillance10
eslint-config-airbnb10
remote-api10
environment-variables10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
codfish/dapp-utils
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Utility methods for JS dApp's to supplement web3-utils.
Contributions:9 releases, 24 PRs, 31 pushes in 7 months
jsreactlotterydappethereum
codfish/eslint-config-codfish
Dec 2018 - Aug 2022
ESList configuration I use in personal and work projects. Airbnb w/ prettier, supports react & non-react, docker & dApps.
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 112 commits in 3 years 8 months
supports-reactreactdocker-reacteslintairbnb
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