Kevin O'connor
Director Of Engineering at Internet Archive
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin O'Connor is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure and platform teams for high-traffic services. Currently Director of Engineering at the Internet Archive, he has previously led large organizations at Reddit and Kickstarter where he grew teams, established SRE practices, and drove cost-efficient vendor strategies across AWS/GCP. He combines hands-on backend expertise—evident in contributions to the historical reddit codebase around OAuth, rate limiting, and Cassandra performance—with a talent for hiring, mentoring, and operationalizing reliability and delivery practices. Kevin has a track record of turning legacy systems into reliable, API-driven platforms and accelerating hiring and release quality through process improvements. Based in New York, he blends technical depth with organizational leadership, often solving thorny production problems while developing the next generation of engineering managers. An early career background in systems and DevOps informs his pragmatic approach to observability, incident response, and scalable architecture.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Staten Island Technical High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
back-end-development10
python10
api-design10
oauth10
reddit9
database-management8
javascript5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/reddit
Apr 2015 - Sep 2016
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 23 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on back-end improvements and maintenance within the Reddit codebase. Their contributions included fixing HTTPS-related issues, implementing rate limit tracking, and adding OAuth error messages. They also refined OAuth2 scope checking and addressed a Cassandra performance issue related to link submissions.
pythonprawjavascripthistoricalarchiver
kjoconnor/pyhatchbabyrest
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Python library to control the Hatch Baby Rest device.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 9 commits in 3 years 1 month
python-librarypythonbabyhatchhatch-baby-rest
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