William O'connell
Software Engineer
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam O'Connell is a full-stack software engineer in the DC area with 10 years of experience building web and mobile games, interactive experiences, and production services with thousands of paying users. He blends frontend (React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS) and backend (FastAPI, Java, Postgres) expertise to deliver data-rich visualizations and live telemetry pipelines, and has reduced server response times by measurable amounts through performance tracing. At Hexagram and Magnopus he built authoring tools, conversation systems, and programmatic video workflows on AWS, and he maintains the indie game Subtext (subtextgame.com). Comfortable across startups, research labs, and large enterprises, he’s equally at home prototyping new interaction models and hardening services for scale. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex domain data into usable interfaces and shared infrastructure like MinIO.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Miami University
Github Skills (79)
act10
exceptions10
letsencrypt9
acme9
webapp9
handlers9
web-application9
encrypt9
python9
certbot9
specification9
ssl-certificate9
parsing9
generative-model9
nodejs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MasonFloodHazardsResearchLab/iFloodWebsite
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
Repo for the iFlood web interface
Contributions:218 commits, 2 PRs, 185 pushes in 2 years 11 months
usabilityuser-interfacetrinitycoreweb-interfaceazerothcore
WilliamOConnell/who-doesnt-love
Feb 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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