Eoin Falconer
Director Of Engineering at Sanity
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolEoin Falconer is a Director of Engineering based in Oslo with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across startups and large media organizations. At Sanity he has led up to 90 engineers through rapid product development cycles, shipping major releases that improved creator experience, visual editing and AI tooling while contributing front-end fixes to the widely used Sanity Studio. He co-founded and architected a hospitality tech startup that scaled to a Europe-wide platform and was acquired, bringing hands-on experience from CTO to post-acquisition engineering leadership. Comfortable both shipping UI improvements and driving technical strategy, he blends pragmatic coding (monorepos, fp-ts) with hiring, culture and cross-functional alignment. His background in migrating large legacy frontends to React and enabling cross-organizational data use at Schibsted gives him a knack for simplifying complex systems and incentives. Pronounced "Owen," he pairs Irish directness with a collaborative leadership style shaped by building teams that move fast without breaking things.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Abbey Community CollegeBSc. in Computer Science, Computer Science, BSc. in Computer Science, Computer Science at University College Dublin
Irish, English, Norwegian
Github Skills (12)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
headlessui9
headless-browser9
headless-cms9
cms9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sanity-io/sanity
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 17 reviews, 18 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Eoin primarily focused on front-end development within the Sanity Studio project, addressing UI/UX issues and implementing user interface improvements. They fixed issues related to the search modal, announcement dialog tooltip, and date input components, improving the user experience. Furthermore, they contributed to making header and error texts customizable and updated the Sanity UI library, enhancing the overall studio functionality.
cmsheadlessreactrealtimesanity-studio
EoinFalconer/scrabble
Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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