Russell O'connor
Founder at Russell Life Sustainability
Kitchener, Ontario, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolRussell O'connor is a founder and HR leader with 13 years' experience building people-first systems and operational rigor across multinational firms and scale-ups. He currently runs end-to-end HR for a national company while scaling Medmark’s HR capability and growing Russell Life Sustainability to help mid-career professionals design balanced, mission-aligned lives. Trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt and a mechatronic engineer, he combines data-driven process improvement (SQL, HRIS, analytics) with emotionally intelligent leadership to deliver measurable cost and culture outcomes. His background at Google and YouTube includes global process design, automated controls, and safety oversight for large-scale content operations, demonstrating comfort with complex, high-stakes systems. An occasional open-source contributor, he has made practical fixes to the widely used Jsonnet project, signaling hands-on technical curiosity beyond HR. Outside work he writes, gardens organically, and prioritizes family, bringing a whole-life perspective to organizational change.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Human Resource Management, Master of Arts - MA, Human Resource Management at National College of IrelandB.Eng, Mechatronic Engineering, B.Eng, Mechatronic Engineering at Dublin City UniversityCertificate, Management Practice, Pass (Evaluated Pass/Fail), Certificate, Management Practice, Pass (Evaluated Pass/Fail) at Institute of Management Ireland
Github Skills (8)
jsonnet10
python9
configuration-file9
configurations9
configuration-management9
functional7
documentation7
json5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/jsonnet
Jun 2015 - Dec 2015
Jsonnet - The data templating language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Russell contributed to the Jsonnet project by addressing several issues. They fixed a missing import in a Python script, and updated documentation related to standard library functions and the specification language. Furthermore, they also modified the `cassandra.jsonnet` configuration file, which suggests they are familiar with the project's configuration aspects. Their work included modifying code related to different aspects of Jsonnet project's ecosystem.
configurationtemplatingscalaconfigtemplating-language
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