Kevin O'neill
Innovation Evangelist
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolKevin O'Neill is an innovation-focused technology leader and hands-on engineer with 17 years of experience building high-capacity mobile and distributed systems from Melbourne. He has repeatedly scaled products and teams as CTO, founder, and advisor across health tech, fintech, and consumer startups—most recently leading innovation at Helfie.AI while running Wee Gigs. Comfortable from whiteboard architecture to late-night Objective-C performance tuning, he blends deep technical craft with an empowering leadership style that develops high-calibre teams. Kevin has a track record delivering resilient, operationally conscious systems (e.g., mobile-first diagnostic platforms and spiky real-time services) and translating complex technical choices into clear product outcomes. He stays ahead of emerging techniques in mobile and large-scale performance, and enjoys sharing knowledge through talks spanning system deployment to songwriting. Colleagues cite his rare mix of pragmatic engineering, research-driven evaluation, and genuine enthusiasm for mentoring.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (160)
cqrs9
devtools9
client-library9
env9
cocoa9
event-sourcing9
ddd9
swift8
realtime-database8
database8
neo4j8
sql8
browser8
uikit8
serverless8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kevinoneill/wee-concurrent
Nov 2017 - Nov 2019
Mutex and Semaphore with timeouts for Typescript/NodeJS
Contributions:4 releases, 16 PRs, 322 pushes in 2 years
semaphorejavascriptmutextypescript-nodejstimeouts
weegigs/swiftea
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Bits of the Elm Architecture in Swift for iOS, MacOS and SwiftUI
Contributions:6 releases, 64 commits, 10 PRs in 7 months
elm-architecturethe-elm-architectureelmbitsswift
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