Jason O'conal
Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJason O'conal is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building and rescuing production systems, currently driving the JSM Assets Data Manager at Atlassian. He thrives on strongly typed languages and functional programming, enjoys transforming legacy code into maintainable systems, and obsessively tunes performance and observability. Jason has a proven track record across roles—from hands-on IC to tech lead and architect—helping teams adopt RFCs, accountable principal frameworks, and architecture reviews while mentoring engineers across time zones. He led a full cloud migration from AWS to GCP, designed an eventually consistent distributed product-data system, and has deep experience in incident resolution and cost optimization. Entrepreneurial at heart, he built and monetized Reverse Phones Australia from scratch, showing product instincts alongside engineering craft. Based in Adelaide, he pairs pragmatic user- and business-informed technical decisions with a continuing appetite for learning.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished Bachelor of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Unfinished Bachelor of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at University of Adelaide
English
Stackoverflow
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25answers
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Github Skills (131)
nix10
nixos10
linux10
nixpkgs10
bigcommerce9
hacklang9
api-client9
transmission9
php9
openvpn9
torrent8
docker-container8
docker8
virtual-machine8
formatter7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lovek323/nixpkgs
Feb 2015 - Jul 2024
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:307 pushes, 31 branches in 9 years 6 months
nixosnix-packages
lovek323/spotify-ripper
Feb 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
spotify-ripperspotifypocspotify-web-apimusic
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