Gav O'Connor
Software Engineer
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarGavin O'connor is a frontend-focused software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-traffic, revenue-driving web experiences and ad products. He has supported a proprietary ad-serving/header-bidding platform across 30+ publisher sites and maintained ComplexCon.com, a site serving over a million unique visitors. Comfortable translating designs into production-ready code, Gavin has shipped 150+ custom media campaigns that generated $4M+ and led merchant migrations and customizations on Shopify using Liquid and CI/CD workflows. He builds interactive single-page applications with React and modern animation libraries, and pairs UI polish with practical backend fixes like Docker and database connectivity improvements. Known for engaging directly with clients to define both technical and non-functional requirements, he blends product-minded thinking with hands-on implementation. Based in New York, he brings a mix of editorial background and product training that helps him craft compelling, content-forward web experiences.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (38)
python10
django10
periodic-tasks10
celery-task10
django-orm10
orm10
celerybeat10
celery9
django-project9
web-framework9
navbar8
python-extension7
tooltips6
postgresql-database6
svelte-component5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gav-fyi/django-upgrade
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Automatically upgrade your Django projects.
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year
Scalamoosh/django
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Contributions:25 pushes, 3 branches in 19 days
frameworkdeadlinesweb-framework
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