Patrick O'Sullivan is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years building full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript apps and native mobile experiences using React, React Native, Expo, Swift/SwiftUI and Node. Based in Pensacola, he currently contributes to Tlon and the Urbit project, improving both frontend UX and backend security for a novel distributed OS, demonstrating comfort with unconventional stacks like Hoon alongside mainstream tooling. He has shipped production systems across startups and higher education—spanning GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, and client-side performance work—while also stepping into ops and design workflows. A former business manager who automated family-business processes, he brings a product-minded, data-informed approach and a knack for translating messy real-world requirements into maintainable code.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Economics at Florida State University
Contributions:32 reviews, 132 commits, 64 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Patrick contributed to both the frontend and backend aspects of the Urbit operating function. They fixed a misspelling in the chat-cli help message. On the frontend, the user addressed issues with the landscape interface, including adding emphasis to mentions, preventing duplicate ships in the ShipSearch pills, and handling markdown around mentions. They also made changes to the npm-api and implemented security features in the grid.
Contributions:12 PRs, 43 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
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