Christopher O'connell
Chief Technology Officer at UpRock
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher O'connell is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience building privacy-first, security-focused products from cryptographic primitives to consumer apps. He has co-founded and led multiple startups and engineering organizations across mobile, browser, and blockchain domains, shipping patented cryptography, VPN, and differential privacy technologies at scale. At UpRock he now leads a DePIN initiative on Solana driving millions of installs and real-world edge telemetry, while prior roles at Avast and Tenta centered on secure browsers, post-quantum encryption, and VPN architectures. A hands-on engineer comfortable in Go, PHP, and mobile platforms, he also contributed core DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS work to an open-source recursive DNS server. Trained in physics and astrophysics, he pairs rigorous technical curiosity with practical product delivery and a track record of turning low-level IP into commercial platforms.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaPhysics Computer Science, Physics Computer Science at Middlebury CollegeJesuit High Scool Sacramento
English, German, Romanian
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Github Skills (18)
dnssec10
go10
dns10
networking9
net9
ip9
tcp9
broadcast-receiver9
http8
build-automation7
xml6
php6
android6
java6
android-activity6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tenta-browser/tenta-dns
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Recursive and authoritative DNS server in go, including DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 19 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the core functionality of a DNS server, focusing on the internal workings and resolving queries. The commits demonstrate modifications to the DNS server's response logic, handling of different query types, and integration of DNSSEC. The user also implemented features like handling of RFC5785 style '.well-known' resources and CAA records, adding to the server's capabilities. These changes involved modifying the code and build scripts.
golangdns-over-tlsdnsbindtls
tenta-browser/polychromatic
Aug 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 3 years 3 months
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