Conor O'Brien

Freelance Software Developer & Paralegal

Hello! I'm Conor.

I'm a self-employed Freelance Developer since March 2020. I primarily focus on frontend development, but I have experience maintaining databases, writing content parsers, scraping websites, constructing APIs, designing and implementing programming languages, and maintaining existing code bases. I also work as a full-time Paralegal.

My pronouns are he/him. In most online spaces, I go by the pseudonym Sock.

Professional Experience

• Paralegal
  O'Brien Law, LLC
  June 2022 - Present
• Head Software Developer & Analyst
  Extinction Unleashed
  May 2020 - Present
• Freelance Frontend Developer
  Self-employed
  March 2020 - Present
• Teaching Assistant, Computer Science
  College of William & Mary
  January 2023 - May 2023
• Extension Developer & Consulting Developer
  Dueling Nexus
  August 2019 - February 2021

Education

• College of William & Mary
  M.S. Computer Science
  August 2022 - August 2024
• College of William & Mary
  B.S. Computer Science ⋅ B.A. Philosophy
  August 2019 - December 2022

Expertise

• Programming Languages
  • JavaScript, HTML, & CSS
  • Node.js
  • Ruby
  • Python
  • Java
  • C
  • C++
  • D
  • J
• Frameworks, Libraries, & APIs
  • jQuery
  • npm
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Materialize
  • Chart.js
  • Flask
  • Matplotlib
  • Pillow
  • SDL2
• Skills
  • Parser design and implementation
  • Automated web scraping
  • Developing and documenting existing code bases
  • Code obfuscation and deobfuscation
  • Git command line (GitHub and GitLab)
  • Implementing local GUI interfaces
  • Writing Bash and Batch scripts

Selected Projects

• Extinction Unleashed - A static website for a Yu-Gi-Oh! community, featuring a searchable database, deck editor, and statistics explorer.
  
• YGOPRO Custom Card Maker - An interactive Yu-Gi-Oh! custom card editor, featuring a diverse set of templates and card sharing features.
  
• Pyramid Scheme - An esoteric programming language derived from Scheme, but the programs are visually organized in ASCII art triangles. Cited in SIGBOVIK 2021 (Macro-driven metalanguage for writing Pyramid Scheme programs, Marcin Konowalczyk, 2021, p.227-235).
  
• stacked - A postfix, stack-based programming language written in JavaScript.