Connor Meehan
Senior Creative Technologist @ EyeJack
Hello! I'm a Senior Creative Technologist Working at EyeJack on our internal SaaS product and client work. I am a chronic tinkerer with a curious mind and strive to write practical, expressive, modular code to implement silky smooth user experiences.
What am I like?
Hey!, my name's Connor and I'm currently living in Melbourne Australia. I like to cook, garden, build things and learn languages.
I studied Design Computing at the University of Sydney (essentially an interaction design degree). I am also a self taught engineer, starting as a 12 year old who wanted to make a game and ending up addicted to the problem solving of engineering.
What about at work?
I believe I have a broad range range of experience and perspectives that makes me especially good at collaborating with others. Because a lot of my learning is example/project driven, I think I'm pretty good at jumping into a code base and understanding the architecture, and adhering to patterns and code style quickly. When tasked with larger or more complex pieces of work I try to uncover any unknowns, validate the concept, and form a plan before jumping into the real work. My favorite code to write is fairly linear and procedural, minimizes state, is divided into modules by levels of granularity, and prefers composition over inheritance (although I think it's almost always best to code in the same style as the author).
History
EyeJack App
Senior Creative Technologist | Sep 2022 - Present
- Architecting projects for internal products and client work.
- Pre-empting issues or gotchas with project requirements and planning workarounds early.
- Communicating with project managers, designers and clients in their own language.
- Developing highly interactive and stateful webapp as part of a SaaS product.
- Jumping into unfamiliar codebases to identify and fix issues quickly.
- Valuing and investing in the team via feedback, training and guidance of juniors.
- Setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
codeoncanvas
Creative Developer | May 2020 - Sep 2022
- Transforming designs and feature requirements to code without hand-holding from designers.
- Developing and being accountable for a deadline.
- Scaffolding a new project from scratch every month or two I got to experiment with a LOT of architectures, libaries and solutions.
Seven West Media
Junior Fullstack Engineer | Aug 2018 - May 2020
- Asking good questions to learn fast (never forgotten)
- Working with a feature branch based workflow
- Agile development methodology for sustainable development
- My first exposure to 'real' JS (Vanilla ES6, React, Vue) and C# (ASP.NET)
Non-commercial
Bobbin Bear
Personal Project | Feb 2023 - Present
- Bobbin Bear is a side project to build an online embroidery file editor for use in machine embroidery
- Started out building on webtech, made a custom react-three-fiber style renderer for Pixi and SolidJS
- Realised the project requirements demanded better performance + better support for hard problems like text/font shaping. Switched to rust for these reasons.
- Very early stages and broken right now, but learning rust has improved my code dramatically.
Doom Nvim
Github Maintainer | Feb 2022
- Doom Nvim was a user facing framework for configuring the neovim editor.
- Architecting APIs for making configuration easy, clear and customisable.
- Resolving issues and maintaining release cycles
- Providing support over discord.
- Being the primary contributor and working an already demanding job I got burnt out quite quickly and had to abandon it myself.
Thanks for reading and don't hesitate to contact me if you're interested in working together!