Summary
O Stinson is a seasoned software leader with 17 years of experience, currently serving as Director of Software Engineering at Cisco Meraki where he drives cloud-managed networking initiatives. He began his career building bioinformatics platforms—designing databases, web front ends, and genomics data pipelines—before transitioning to large-scale networking products and engineering management. Hands-on across Rails, JavaScript, Perl, MySQL/Postgres, Linux and system administration, he combines deep full-stack chops with operational sensibility. He enjoys moving between product leadership and hands-on engineering, mentoring teams to ship reliable, scalable systems. Outside work he tinkers with home automation, reflecting a long-standing habit of building practical tools for real users. Based in San Francisco, he is looking for opportunities that let him apply his technical breadth outside biology.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
MS Biology, MS Biology at University of Notre Dame