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Menlo Park, California, Us

Manage a team of senior engineers with the mission of helping hundreds of engineers move fast with high quality on an iOS app with hundreds of millions of daily users.Responsible for a number of org-wide initiatives, and for managing WhatsApp communication with Apple Developer Relations.

Dublin 14, Dublin, Ie

Reported to the Chief Product & Technology Officer, responsible for leading a team of 60+ engineers, delivering software across web, iOS, Android and backend applications.Worked closely with stakeholders across all functions delivering significant business growth:- Delivered the largest partner integration in company history going live with easyJet- Expanded business to the US, working with Uber, Airbnb and multiple American airlines- Increased revenue for all partners by multivariate testing new features on the booking funnelBuilt and evolved a team of high performing engineers to meet the needs of the business:- Recruited over 20 engineers in critical roles and fostered a rock solid leadership team- Increased collaboration and impact by merging front and backend organizations- Increased retention by designing and rolling out a global career progression frameworkRefined and evolved the technology stack to meet the needs of the business:- Improved user acquisition by replacing legacy applications with React/AWS codebase- Reduced production incidents by increasing automated testing on the backend- Decreased partner integration time across web and native

Dublin 14, Dublin, Ie

Fostered a culture of trust and collaboration by introducing technical working groups, tech talks, a weekly engineering e-zine, quarterly showcases, lunch & learns, games & competitions, and some famous social events.Leveled up the web, Android and iOS products with scalable technical solutions, resulting in increased capacity for new features and 12 new partners adopting the native SDKs.

Founded a company to solve power management for IOT devices, completed a startup program in Alchemist Accelerator, interviewed 100+ customers, pitched to 50+ investors, presented at conferences and debated on panels. Crashed and burned fairly quickly, but learned a lot in the process!

Dublin, Ie

Delivered a brand new prize-winning flagship iPhone app which reached No. 1 in the UK & Irish App Store with 400,000+ downloads in its first week, by working closely with business partners and defining and leading best practice for 16 iOS engineers.Delivered the Brazil Soccer World Cup iPhone App to an aggressive schedule after the project was brought in house, and delivered multiple features on the native iPad application.

Designed, developed and released ephemeral messaging, tourist attraction, and branded enterprise apps for clients.

Dublin 8, Ie

Implemented procurement, design, quality, programme, cost, risk and interface management for 3 light rail projects.

Engineering

Iphone And Ipad Development

Project Management Professional Certification

Secondary/High School