Connor Mann
Member Of Technical Staff at Basis
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Mann is a software engineer with six years of experience building reliable backend systems and shipping product-focused features at startups. Based in New York, he progressed from individual contributor roles to staff-level product leadership at Gumroad before joining Basis as a Member of Technical Staff. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Homebrew, where he improved efficiency by refactoring download and tap logic and removing fragile shallow-clone dependencies. Connor combines engineering rigor from a Yale computer science education with practical, cross-disciplinary problem solving—evident from hands-on museum conservation engineering and lab research on animal behavior. He’s comfortable moving between product responsibilities and deep technical refactors, and he brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability and test alignment to large codebases.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Yale UniversityInternational Baccalaureate Program, International Baccalaureate Program at Largo High School
Github Skills (5)
homebrew10
git10
package-manager10
ruby10
testing9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/brew
May 2021 - Aug 2021
🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 reviews, 115 commits, 13 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Connor's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Homebrew package manager's codebase. They removed dependencies on shallow clones within various components, including download strategies, taps, and tests. The user also added deprecation warnings for removed functionality and adjusted tests to align with the changes. Their work streamlined the package manager's internal workings, improving its efficiency.
brewpackage-managerlinuxrubymissing
cnnrmnn/godipper
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:131 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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