Mike O'connell
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael O'Connell is a Senior Principal Crafter with 12+ years of hands-on software engineering and technical management experience, currently leading high-availability system design and cross-platform C++ game-engine DevOps at 8th Light. He combines deep expertise in translating legal and ISO 27001 security policies into operational business rules with practical skills in trademark/copyright enforcement and automated online-infringement workflows. Michael has steered integrations and finance-backed accounting systems as Director of Integration at Lexsynergy, and earlier led architecture and technical teams across domain services and gaming industries. He focuses on optimizing build pipelines, embedding ML/NLP and custom neural networks for automated classification and DevOps tooling, while also contributing front-end work when projects demand. Based in the UK, he is known for thriving on complex, multidisciplinary challenges and for turning regulatory and legal constraints into auditable, production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Programming, Programming at Van Zyl & PritchardEng, Afr; Maths, Science, Accounting, Industrial Arts, Eng, Afr; Maths, Science, Accounting, Industrial Arts at Bryanston High SchoolUniversity of South Africa
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (47)
monitoring10
dashboard10
mysql10
grafana10
analytics10
prometheus10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
postgresql9
observability9
business-intelligence9
whois9
go9
influxdb9
audit-trail8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DomainNameServices/whois-server-list
Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year 4 months
top-level-domainswhoisdomainsserver-list
McAnix/DoctrineAuditBundle
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Doctrine audits logs made easy.
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
auditphpsymfony-bundleauditsdoctrine
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