Odhrán Mcconnell
CEO And Founder at Arcana AI
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOdhrán Mcconnell is a technology CEO and founder with 12+ years of leadership experience and a career spanning hands-on software engineering to executive strategy. He builds high-performance teams and operationalizes rapid delivery—at Trint he scaled engineering to 32 ICs and moved releases from weeks to daily deployments while driving DORA metrics to elite levels. A skilled translator of complex systems into human-readable strategy, he runs technical due diligence for M&A, coaches other CTOs, and has led large engineering organizations including a 76-engineer team at The Guardian. His background ranges from 6502 assembly to quantum computing, and he combines product-focused AI/ML consultancy work at Arcana AI with deep experience in data pipelines, security, and infrastructure. Notably, he increased engineering diversity through an associate program that grew women in engineering from 1 to 8 and co-invented a provisional US patent tied to mobile products. Based in London, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a practical, delivery-first mindset.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Physics and Instrumentation, Applied Physics and Instrumentation at Cork Regional Technical College
English, Italian, Irish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
guardian9
android-apps5
android5
ios4
notification4
testing3
health1
image-resizer1
scala1
core-module1
monitoring1
resizer1
dashboard1
image1
image-processing1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
101-Ways/pairing-test-data-engineer
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
Pairing exercise for a data engineer
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 months
data-engineerpairing
101-Ways/pairing-test-html-css
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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