Tom O'connor
Indie Developer at Prototypable
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTom O'connor is an indie developer and product-oriented engineer with 11 years of experience and 8+ years building front-end experiences using JavaScript and React. He blends frontend expertise with backend and AWS serverless skills—having built offline-first React Native apps and Rust-based Lambda backends with DynamoDB and API Gateway. Tom has driven measurable productivity gains (e.g., a Webpack plugin that sped his frontend team 25–50%) and has a track record shipping high-traffic consumer products, including an independently built app that attracted 40M visits and generated substantial passive income. Comfortable owning end-to-end delivery, he emphasizes collaboration, code standards, peer review and pragmatic design patterns. Based in Vancouver, he brings both startup grit and disciplined engineering practices to product-focused teams.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Prepress/Desktop Publishing and Digital Imaging Design, Prepress/Desktop Publishing and Digital Imaging Design at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Github Skills (75)
javascript10
open-source10
react10
react-component-library9
localstorage9
proxy8
webpack8
nodejs8
mobx-state-tree7
indexeddb7
backend7
firebase7
couchdb7
observable7
redux7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
helpscout/proxypack
Mar 2019 - Dec 2019
🎭ProxyPack: Proxy Local Webpack Assets to your Production Domain
Contributions:25 releases, 153 commits, 17 PRs in 9 months
proxywebpacknodenodejs
tjbo/prototypable-design-system
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
A design system for making websites
Contributions:152 releases, 428 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
cssreactdesign-system
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