Hugh O'brien
Infrastructure at Freed
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHugh O'brien is an infrastructure specialist with 11 years of experience building and securing large-scale streaming and big data systems, currently leading infrastructure at Freed after a recent CTO stint at Kagi.com. He is a recognised expert in Linux, Kafka, cloud-native architectures (notably Azure), and infrastructure security, with hands-on history tuning geo-redundant, event-driven platforms. Hugh combines operator-level depth—Kafka ops, disaster recovery, performance tuning—with executive leadership across startups and product-stage companies like Thrive Global and Zendesk. He founded a secure communications startup for the legal sector, showing an appetite for privacy-first product design, and earlier work at Intel and in academic research highlights a habit of solving low-level, high-impact problems. Based in New York, he brings a pragmatic blend of engineering, security, and cost-aware operational strategy to production data systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Research Wireless Protocols, Research Wireless Protocols at University of Limerick
Github Skills (200)
python10
nix10
pgp10
api-client10
testing10
yubikey10
http10
websocket10
rsa-cryptography10
security10
smartcard10
http-client10
rest-api10
gpg-agent10
k8s10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
hughobrien/zfs-remote-mirror
Aug 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:92 pushes, 2 branches, 14 comments in 2 years 8 months
hughobrien/k3os-hetzner
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch, 6 comments in 1 year 3 months
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