Connor Poole is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native products across startups and high-growth teams. He has moved rapidly from hands-on engineering and cloud architecture roles at Disney and DAQRI into senior engineering leadership at Bird and executive technical leadership at OurSky and Observable Space. Connor blends firmware and electrical-hardware experience from early product work with deep DevOps and platform expertise, enabling him to bridge embedded systems, cloud infrastructure, and developer productivity. Known for turning long-running manual processes into automated, measurable pipelines, he pairs tactical delivery with strategic technical vision. As a perpetual learner who led teams through rapid productization and fundraising-stage engineering, he excels at hiring, mentoring, and operationalizing engineering practices. He favors pragmatic solutions that tie low-level system tradeoffs to business outcomes, rather than abstract architectures.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Double Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Double Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Southern California
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Connor Poole - Chief Technology Officer at Observable Space