Summary
Guilherme O'connor is a versatile Front End Developer and architect with 16 years of professional experience and a 23-year background in web and software development informed by studies in Architecture and Computer Science. He has led front-end architecture and teams at startups and scale-ups (Snupps, JustGiving, FundApps) and delivered consultancy for large organisations including Yahoo! and HMCTS, with a consistent focus on React-based product builds, UI architecture and frontend modernization. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs deep technical skills—DSL parsers, legacy platform adaptations and front-end consolidation—with strong design sensibilities from his architecture and photography background. He’s fluent in four languages, a seasoned mentor who restructures teams and practices, and an advocate for testing, accessibility and usable, SEO-friendly interfaces. Notably, his career spans unusual intersections—from prototype mobile firmware at Sony Ericsson to lecturing compiler design—reflecting a systematic, pragmatic approach to problem solving and a taste for conceptual and visual elegance. Based in London, he runs Guioconnor LTD and consults on front-end architecture while continuing to ship production web applications.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Architecture, Architecture at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Grad Courses, Computer Science, Grad Courses, Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French