Flint O'brien

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

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Flint O'brien is a seasoned software leader and full-stack architect with 15 years delivering cloud, IoT, and energy-focused systems from startup to enterprise. He led Fermata Energy’s engineering organization to build a high-performance V2G cloud platform that materially contributed to a $40M Series A, growing the team from 2 to 14 and operating a distributed global workforce. Flint combines deep hands-on skills in backend (Scala/Java), front-end UX, and Linux with a product-minded approach honed at Green Energy and earlier networking and startup roles. He has a track record of rescuing underperforming teams, shipping production SCADA and EMS systems with tight real-time constraints, and contributing front-end performance improvements to notable open-source projects like SVG-Edit. Known for asking incisive questions that get to root causes, he balances technical rigor with a genuine focus on customer outcomes. Based in Chapel Hill, he holds both a BS and MS in Computer Science from Mississippi State University.

15 years of coding experience

25 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelors & Masters Computer Science, Bachelors & Masters Computer Science at Mississippi State University

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Github Skills (14)

testing10

javascript10

qunit10

svg10

front-end-development10

performance-optimization9

twitter-bootstrap9

datetime6

trigger6

jquery6

python6

keypress6

watch6

java6

Programming languages (3)

C++ScalaJavaScript

Github contributions (5)

SVG-Edit/svgedit

Apr 2016 - May 2016

Powerful SVG-Editor for your browser

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:21 commits, 9 PRs, 3 pushes in 12 days

Contributions summary:Flint primarily refactored and improved the internal workings of the SVG editor's utilities, focusing on performance enhancements for the `getBBox` and `convertToPath` functions. They updated the testing suite to validate these changes and ensure the correct behavior of these core functionalities. Their contributions involved modifying JavaScript files, particularly `svgutils.js`, `select.js`, and `svgcanvas.js`, as well as updating relevant test files to reflect the changes. These improvements focused on optimizing bounding box calculations and element conversion within the SVG editor.

svg-editbrowsersvgjavascripteditor

gec/greenbus-web-views

Jan 2015 - Jan 2018

Contributions:183 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years

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