My name is Jason O’Neil.
I am a software engineer at Culture Amp – a company that improves the world of work by helping organizations invest in their people and culture. I work in the Developer Experience team, where we help Culture Amp’s ~300 engineers do their thing in a nicer / more productive / more streamlined way. I live in Perth/Boorloo, Western Australia (Noongar land). I’m a single dad to two brilliant boys. 💕
I use this blog to write about different things, for different audiences, so I’ve split them up into different categories / different blogs:
- Software Engineering Blog: web stuff and work stuff. My background was in Front End development, and then a niche language called Haxe which I wrote a lot about. These days I work in internal developer platforms / developer experience type work, and do as much engineering management and product planning as coding. I don’t write as much here as I used to.
- Personal and Faith: mostly me grappling with my faith and spirituality, mixed with occasional posts about cool books or podcasts etc. I have grown up Christian, and would still put myself in that camp. At one point I would have described myself as an agnostic/mystic Christian, but I’m learning that how you live and love is more important than what you believe to be factual… and I want to live in a way that follows the lead of Jesus. Even if I don’t know what that means a lot… I sometimes find writing a good way to process all of that.
I’ve tried to keep the categories mildly separate, because I figure the sort of person interested in one might not be interested in another. I could be wrong though. If you want to view them all mushed together, there is this page. And I don’t want to be too technical if you’re not up for that, or too spiritual if you don’t want to hear any of that etc etc.
You can also find me on: mastodon (@jasono@hachyderm.io), github (jasononeil), linkedin or get in touch with me jason@jasononeil.au