Tristan O'neil
Staff Engineer at charity: water
Bridport, Vermont, United States
Summary
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RockstarTristan O'neil is a Staff Engineer with 15 years of full-stack experience building and scaling web platforms, currently leading engineering work at charity: water from Vermont. He has deep Rails, Postgres and React expertise from long-term stewardship of charity: water’s fundraising platform and has also built mobile-facing APIs at Calendly. Comfortable across backend, DevOps and infrastructure, Tristan contributed to a popular headless WordPress + React starter by hardening MySQL 8 compatibility and adding Docker-first workflows. He combines hands-on coding with platform-minded improvements that make developer environments idempotent and reliable. A former founder and consultant, he brings pragmatic product sensibility to complex technical problems and a history of shipping production systems end-to-end.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
docker10
mysql10
wordpress10
dockers10
scripting9
headless-cms9
shell9
script9
sh9
devops8
nextjs7
data-mapper6
android6
mongoid6
formtastic6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
postlight/headless-wp-starter
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
🔪 WordPress + React Starter Kit: Spin up a WordPress-powered React app in one step
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 15 days
Contributions summary:Tristan primarily focused on improving the WordPress setup and environment within a React-based headless CMS starter kit. They addressed compatibility issues with MySQL 8, modifying configuration scripts and database interactions. Their contributions include enabling a Docker option for development, adjusting the build process to accommodate containerization, and improving the idempotent nature of the setup process.
reactjsboilerplatewordpressrest-apireact-wordpress
tristanoneil/tristanoneil.github.com
Feb 2013 - Nov 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 9 years 10 months
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