Zoë O'Connell
I am Zoë O’Connell, a Principal Platform Operations Engineer currently working at Secondmind, a Cambridge-basded automotive machine learning company in the UK. (We do Augmented Intelligence, not Artificial Intelligence) With more than 25+ years’ experience in platform engineering, DevOps and networking - having previously been a senior networking geek (Formerly CCIE#8174) - I bring deep technical expertise and experience to everything I build.
Outside of work, I am a RYA-qualified Coastal Skipper and Paddle UK qualified instructor. I was previously politically active, having stood for parliament twice, and served as a city councillor and deputy leader of the opposition on Cambridge City council. Before that, I also served as a British Army reservist with the Royal Signals & Intelligence Corps.
For more on my work, past and present, check out the projects list linked to from the top of this site.
news
| Dec 05, 2025 | New Post: Titon HRV Home Assistant/HomeKit Automation |
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| Dec 03, 2025 | I have uploaded a set of scripts I wrote to find flights outside of working hours |
| Jan 02, 2025 | My Advent of Code 2024 solutions are now available - mostly Golang this year. Happy new year. |
| Aug 24, 2024 | Successive Livejournal (!), Wordpress and MySQL upgrades had degraded my old site to the point where some posts were unreadable. Most posts have now been migrated to this site which uses a hopefully more resilient plain-text backend. Posts are now categorised predominantly by “project” which should make them easier to find. |