James O'connor
Sr. Product Owner at Opengear
Two Rivers, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolJames O'connor is a flexible, remote Senior Product Owner with 14 years of experience blending hands-on embedded and avionics engineering with product leadership in IoT, network device management, and secure software supply chains. He bridges Product and Engineering to deliver modernized Linux-based console servers and service-oriented management platforms, prioritizing usability, accessibility, and security while minimizing support overhead in B2B markets. A former Principal Scrum Master and software engineer, he combines Agile program practices with deep firmware and systems expertise (C, Python, Lua, embedded Linux) to drive fast iteration and reliable releases across distributed teams. His background in avionics systems and military RF maintenance gives him a rigorous approach to certification, redundancy, and mission-critical reliability that informs pragmatic product tradeoffs.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, RussianGithub contributions (1)
go2starr/CS-638-BWAPI
Mar 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:26 commits in 1 month
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