Nick O'neill
Engineering Manager at Tailscale
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick O'neill is an experienced engineering manager and mobile-focused software generalist with 17 years building consumer and advocacy products from the UI up. Based in San Francisco, he currently leads engineering at Tailscale while co-founding and serving as technical director for 5 Calls, a civic tech platform that has powered over two million calls to Congress. His background spans leading mobile teams at Spin, eatsa, and Launch Apps and hands-on iOS work — notable open-source contributions include PermissionScope and client-side improvements to Perkeep and GIF handling in OLImageView. He combines people leadership with deep product empathy, shipping polished user experiences and robust client features like progress tracking, keychain integration, and resilient animated UI behavior. Known for balancing day-job management with meaningful volunteer technical work, he brings a pragmatic, user-centered approach to scalable engineering.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (30)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
nickoneill/PermissionScope
Apr 2015 - Oct 2017
Intelligent iOS permissions UI and unified API
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 174 commits, 53 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily worked on the iOS mobile application, focusing on implementing the user interface and core features of the app. The commits demonstrate the development of a custom permission UI using Swift, including elements such as buttons, labels, and alerts. The user also worked on managing location permissions and implementing the required delegate methods and integration with the iOS system.
apipermissionsiosunified-apiintelligent
perkeep/perkeep
Jul 2013 - Mar 2014
Perkeep (née Camlistore) is your personal storage system for life: a way of storing, syncing, sharing, modelling and backing up content.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer (iOS/OSX)
Full-stack Developer (iOS/OSX)Contributions:43 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily worked on the iOS and OS X client applications, adding features and addressing various issues within the Camlistore project. Their contributions include implementing a menu bar application for OS X with an icon, launch control to start and stop the camlistored process, and progress bars for uploads. They also added progress tracking and implemented features for uploading photos from iOS, as well as incorporating keychain management. These changes suggest a focus on improving the user experience and functionality of the clients.
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