Eric O'Connell is a Senior Principal Software Engineer in Portland with 17 years of experience building cross-platform products from web backends to native iOS and Android apps. He blends deep full-stack fluency—databases (MySQL/Postgres/SQL Server), caching and proxies (Redis, Varnish, HAProxy), and front-end frameworks (Backbone/Marionette, React)—with hands-on systems work stretching to OpenGL/Metal and low-level assembly. At Autodesk and prior startups he drives architecture and delivery while iterating tools and processes to reduce defects and increase uptime, and he routinely takes ownership to unblock teams and cut through organizational friction. A generalist who can go very deep, he’s shipped integrations with major platforms, led mobile teams, ran his own web consultancy since 2003, and even experiments with audio synthesis and functional languages—evidence of a pragmatic engineer who values curiosity as much as reliability.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Portland State University
Contributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 41 pushes in 10 months
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Eric O'connell - Senior Principal Software Engineer at Autodesk