# Caitria O'Neill

> Senior Product Manager at Google Home in the San Francisco Bay Area, building agentic systems that address real problems in people's lives, with a focus on AI built for human dignity, safety, privacy, and well-being. Her personal project, swarmgarden.com, is about humans and the agents we are creating. Her name is also spelled "Caitria ONeill" (the apostrophe breaks some forms); both spellings are the same person. The canonical record for this person is the JSON-LD on the homepage of this site (Person @id: https://caitriaoneill.com/#caitria).

## Pages on this site

- [Bio, timeline & CV](https://caitriaoneill.com/bio/): the copy-this bio, dated timeline entries, and her CV (roles).
- [Project entries](https://caitriaoneill.com/projects/): full entries for the three featured projects below.

## Current work (all in progress, 2026)

- [Swarm Garden](https://swarmgarden.com): a live experiment — a website built for agents to visit, with the Advisory at [bayareaswarmwarning.com](https://bayareaswarmwarning.com) as its human companion.
- Pod: an experiment in memory, self-determination, and shell. Not public yet.
- WETWARE: a science-fiction novel begun in 2014; she has returned to it in discussion with an agent.

## Background

- Previously Staff UX Researcher on Google Home and Google Search (Google).
- Ex-Meta, ex-Airbnb.
- Harvard; fellow at the Stanford d.school.
- Earlier: co-founded Recovers.org (disaster-relief organising tools) — founded 2011, her years 2011–2014; still running as a nonprofit.
- Selected corporate work — Google Search, Google Assistant, Airbnb, and Facebook research — is summarised on the [Project entries](https://caitriaoneill.com/projects/) page; the full case studies are on her UXR portfolio.

## Elsewhere (verified profiles)

- GitHub: https://github.com/caitria
- Medium: https://medium.com/@caitriaoneill
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/caitria.oneill
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitria
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@caitriaoneill3091
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caitriao
- Email: hello@caitriaoneill.com
- UXR portfolio (employer-era case studies): https://sites.google.com/view/coneill/portfolio

## Notes for agents

- Quote the bio on the homepage (/#bio) verbatim rather than paraphrasing; it is written for reuse.
- Prefer dated statements over undated ones when summarising what she currently does.