Jack O'Hara · Six Paths Software
Senior software engineer with 15 years' experience leading teams, building products and keeping them running. Founder of Six Paths Software.
Available for contracts · Outside IR35
Work
Apps I design, build and run myself under Six Paths Software.
Your income, bills and budgets, day by day.
A personal cashflow planner. Add your income, bills and budgets and see your balance projected day by day across the year, colour-coded so the tight weeks stand out before you get to them.
Visit snapshotmoney.co.ukA cosy pomodoro timer with a pet.
A hand-drawn focus timer for Android. Pick a pet, start a session, and it curls up for a nap on the chair while you work, then wakes up when it's time for a break. Free, with no accounts, ads or tracking.
A calm water-sort puzzle with a story.
Pour water between tubes until each one holds a single colour, then follow the rainbow river on through 24 zones of animated scenery, with Quackers the duck and his lost ducklings along the way. Built for Android.
About me
I've spent 15 years building software for real businesses, from leading development teams to designing, shipping and running products of my own. I care about the whole job: understanding the problem, writing code that's easy to change, and keeping it running long after launch.
Building a next-generation electronic patient record used every day by NHS GP practices, with improvements shipped every week.
Led the development team behind Elogbooks, the facilities management software now part of Vantify, and spearheaded the launch of Elogbooks Facilities Services, now Vantify Facilities Services.
Designed, built and run a cashflow planner, a pomodoro timer app and a water-sort puzzle game for Android, from the first idea to the live service.
Tools I reach for: PHP, Symfony, Laravel, TypeScript, Vue, React, React Native, Node, MySQL, Docker
How I work
I'm at home across the whole life of a project, so you can bring me in wherever you need me.
Hover over or tap a stage to see what's involved.
Understand the problem, the people it’s for, and what success looks like.
Shape the architecture, data and user experience before a line of code is written.
Clean, well-structured code, delivered in small steps you can see and review.
Automated and hands-on testing, so problems are caught early and cheaply.
Safe, repeatable deployments. No drama on launch day.
Monitor, maintain and learn from real use, then feed it all back into the next plan.
…then back to Plan, with everything we've learned.
Get in touch
Whether it's a contract, a project or a question about something I've built, drop me a line using the form.