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A picture of me, Oisín Quinn.
A picture of me, Oisín Quinn, speaking at a tech conference.

An animated gif of a yellow blob waving at you. Hi! I'm Oisín Quinn. I’m a software engineer focused on building front-ends on the web. I live in Dublin, Ireland but I'm originally from the lovely Cavan.

I currently work for HubSpot, where I build products using React and TypeScript. I consider myself to be a product engineer, and I care much more about building the right thing than using fancy new tech.

I've tried my hand at a lot of different tech over the past few years, but I'm a big fan of JavaScript and front-end software development (especially React). I grew up as a kid always on the internet, writing blog posts about all the latest Club Penguin tips and tricks and tweeting at way too young of an age. I was amazed at how easy it was to create something as complex as a website, and easily build something that people could start using straight-away.

I love building things on the web, but I also love music. I love listening to it, talking about it, going to gigs, and following my local scene in Dublin.

What I’ve been up to:

  • I hosted a college radio show called Quinntessentials for three years. This show aired weekly on Belfield FM and I uploaded most of these episodes to Mixcloud. Some of these have been copyright-striked since then, but I have an archive of all episodes here.
  • I co-organised a student-run tech conference called SISTEM for two years. 2020’s edition featured 23 different events, 30+ speakers and had 200 attendees, raising over €1,500 for charity. It was the most challenging and stressful thing I’ve ever done in my life, but also probably the most rewarding! Learn more about it here.
  • amhran.ie was a React website that showcased a new Irish song every day. I learned a lot about the Irish music scene while running this project. In hindsight I bit off way more than I could chew with this (finding a new good Irish song every day is tough!), but it was cool to just come up with an idea and launch it within a week. Learn more on my blog here.

...and that’s about it! I’ve recently had a lot of ideas for things I want to do, but I’ve struggled to actually put those ideas into action. Maybe that’ll change soon?

This week I'm listening to...

Album art for the album "Marty Supreme (Original Soundtrack)" by Daniel Lopatin

Marty Supreme (Original Soundtrack)

Daniel Lopatin
Album art for the album "Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides" by Sophie

Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

Sophie
Album art for the album "4 Your Eyez Only" by J. Cole

4 Your Eyez Only

J. Cole
Album art for the album "Civilisation" by Kero Kero Bonito

Civilisation

Kero Kero Bonito
Album art for the album "Pursuit of Dreams" by Jeroen Granneman

Pursuit of Dreams

Jeroen Granneman
Album art for the album "Blizzard" by Dove Ellis

Blizzard

Dove Ellis

If you like what you see, follow me on Last.fm.

I don’t post much publicly these days. But you can find me on:

  • Email logo Email (I read these!)
  • Bluesky logo Bluesky (I barely use this but it’s less depressing than “X™: The Everything App”)
  • GitHub logo GitHub (don’t expect too much happening in public here)
  • LinkedIn logo LinkedIn (I barely use this – leave a message in your request if you’re connecting!)
  • Instagram logo Instagram (but I probably won’t add you if I don’t know you – sorry!)