Joe O'conor
Director Of Engineering at Vimeo
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe O'conor is a Director of Engineering in New York with 12 years of hands-on full‑stack experience building scalable web applications, service-oriented architectures, and data ingestion pipelines. He’s risen through engineering and management roles at Vimeo, combining strategic leadership with deep technical fluency in Ruby on Rails, Node.js, AngularJS and modern devops practices. At startups like CloudCrawler and YellowHammer he delivered order-of-magnitude performance improvements and transformed monoliths into JSON microservices, directly improving platform capacity and customer outcomes. A Marine Corps communications officer-turned-engineer, he brings disciplined tenacity and an entrepreneurial, small-team mindset to product and team-building efforts. He’s as comfortable optimizing backend throughput and costs as he is shipping elegant, dynamic UIs that reduce operational friction for users.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at Columbia University
Github Skills (14)
driver9
ruby-client9
heroku-api7
redis7
pgbouncer7
api-documentation7
api7
markdown6
buildpack5
openapi5
debugging3
ruby3
http-client2
heroku1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vhx/heroku-buildpack-pgbouncer
Mar 2021 - Aug 2025
Run pgbouncer and stunnel in a dyno along with your application
Contributions:10 PRs, 18 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 6 months
pgbouncerdockerstunnelkubernetesdyno
learn-co-students/angular-multiple-controllers-lab-Continued-Education
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 months
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