John Oconnor
Director Of Engineering, Machine Zone Studio at AppLovin
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Oconnor is a Director of Engineering with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale game and marketing platforms from the backend to client. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has led cross-functional teams at AppLovin and Machine Zone, bringing deep expertise in high-concurrency server architecture, performance tuning, and reliable deployment pipelines. His background spans Elixir/Erlang, Mono/C#, Redis, protocol buffers and infrastructure automation, and he has designed systems that supported hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. A pragmatic full-stack generalist, John pairs people leadership with a track record of architecting modular, hot-swappable runtimes and robust failover strategies.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English
Github Skills (105)
golang9
devops9
batch8
management8
unity3d8
aerospike8
replication8
binding8
partitioning8
test-project8
lua7
streaming7
sdk7
websocket-client7
go7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
johnfoconnor/exprotoc
Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
Elixir Protocol Buffers Compiler
Contributions:52 commits in 7 months
protocol-bufferserlangprotobufelixirbuffers
johnfoconnor/pi-feeder
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:17 pushes in 1 year
raspberry-pipythonfeederpet-feederwip
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