Kody O'Connell

Kody is a Developer Advocate at Optimizely in San Francisco. A mechanical engineer turned self-taught developer, Kody has worked in the iOS and full-stack communities for over 7 years. At Optimizely Kody helps create technical content like sample apps and documentation for progressive delivery and experimentation products used by companies like Atlassian, Microsoft, and IBM.

Blog Posts by Kody O'Connell

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March 30, 2022

Powerful Feature Flags in Swift + iOS

Feature flags slowly roll out a feature and are extremely helpful when used in a continuous integration and continuous delivery environment.

July 20, 2021

Welcome! Celebrating our newest Optimizely Most Valuable Professionals! 🎉

The Optimizely MVPs (a group of 70+ technical community contributors) have been busy writing code packages, how-to guides, and blog posts to help technical users get the most out of Optimizely products.

July 17, 2020

Kotlin and open-source: A conversation with Patxi Bocos

Hi I’m Kody O’Connell, Optimizely’s Developer Experience Advocate. I recently interviewed open source contributor Patxi Bocos about the Kotlin programming language and his contribution to open source with his project Poetimizely. Listen and/or read below to learn what Kotlin is, who is using it and why you should care.