Kurth O'connor
Senior Developer II, Infrastructure at Schrödinger
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKurth O'connor is a Senior Developer II specializing in infrastructure with a decade of experience building resilient logging, streaming, and data pipeline systems. A Ph.D. in philosophy turned software engineer and educator, he blends rigorous research instincts with pragmatic engineering—co-creating the Crato logging framework to simplify centralized logging for small apps using Kafka, InfluxDB, Docker and AWS. Comfortable across Ruby and JavaScript ecosystems, he has hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL stores and has improved fault tolerance via disk-assisted queues and decoupled ingestion pipelines. At Schrödinger he has progressed from software engineer to senior infrastructure developer, applying production-grade practices to scientific software. Known for lowering operational barriers through automation and custom CLIs, he also writes smoke-test tooling to verify end-to-end data flow. Based in New York, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor, open-source craftsmanship, and practical system-building.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Philosophy, Ph.D., Philosophy at Boston College
Github Skills (45)
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avr8
qmk7
linux6
cookbook4
docker-compose2
ruby2
rsyslog2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jkurthoconnor/data-structures-and-algorithms
Jan 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:128 pushes in 2 years 10 months
jkurthoconnor/language-specific-problems
Feb 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1000 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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