# Josh O'Connor

> Josh O'Connor is a California-based mobile software engineer and founding member at ClickUp whose public record traces a practical path from UC San Diego's mobile application development program and a small iOS arcade game to the teams behind ClickUp's mobile releases. His developer footprint spans iOS, Swift, Ionic, Flutter and Android, while colleagues credit him with simplifying a complex web product for mobile use and delivering steadily across product and design.

- **Role:** Senior Mobile Engineer / Founding Member at ClickUp
- **Organizations:** ClickUp
- **Education:** Post-baccalaureate program in Mobile Application Development, University of California, San Diego
- **Known for:** Helped translate ClickUp's broad web platform into its mobile application as an early engineering team member., Credited among the mobile engineers behind ClickUp 3.0 and the rebuilt Flutter application that led into ClickUp 4.0., Built a Stack Overflow record of more than 290 questions and answers, with particular depth in iOS, Swift, Xcode and Objective-C.

## Career timeline

- **2014-2015** — Completed UC San Diego's post-baccalaureate mobile application development program, covering iOS, Android, front-end, back-end and user-experience work.
- **2014** — Joined Stack Overflow and began building a public record of mobile-development questions and answers.
- **2016** — Released Metal Pug, an iOS arcade game with in-app purchases and Game Center scoring.
- **2020-2021** — Public work and questions show a shift into Flutter as ClickUp's mobile team rebuilt the application across platforms.
- **2023** — Credited by ClickUp's mobile product manager among the engineers who delivered ClickUp 3.0 on mobile.
- **2025** — Investigated Android call-interface behavior in the flutter_callkit_incoming project and later received release credit for an Android native callback contribution.
- **2026** — Publicly celebrated ClickUp 4.0 with the mobile team; a colleague described the release as a new Flutter application delivered in a matter of months.

## Achievements

- Helped translate ClickUp's broad web platform into its mobile application as an early engineering team member.
- Credited among the mobile engineers behind ClickUp 3.0 and the rebuilt Flutter application that led into ClickUp 4.0.
- Built a Stack Overflow record of more than 290 questions and answers, with particular depth in iOS, Swift, Xcode and Objective-C.
- Released the independent iOS arcade game Metal Pug in 2016.
- Contributed an Android native callback fix to the flutter_callkit_incoming open-source package.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Received contributor credit in the flutter_callkit_incoming 3.0.0 release for an Android native callback change.
- **2025-02** — Opened a detailed cross-platform issue about connected-call UI behavior on Android in flutter_callkit_incoming.

## Links

- Website: http://www.joshoconnor.us
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshoconnor89
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/iamjoshoconnor
- GitHub: https://github.com/joshoconnor89

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Last updated: 2026-09-28