Danny Grimes Email & Phone Number

Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, Ireland

Promoted to Senior Software Development Manager, continuing to own the responsibilities of my previous role but with the additional focus now on strategy as the company grows. Managing 3 engineering teams in parallel with 13 reports.➤ Managing a team of engineering managers through mentorship, career management, and feedback. (3 teams)➤ Continuing to personally code and develop when required➤ Working closely with senior leaders (technical/non-tech) to ensure overall company goals are achieved➤ Heavily involved in strategy discussions to ensure our technology supports these goals➤ Developing proof of concepts and driving the requirements for teams to successfully deliver them➤ Owning technical debt and working with the Product Team to allocate time for continuous optimisation➤ Lead system design across several business-critical projects ensuring consistency➤ Monitoring development morale, ensuring talent retention, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement➤ Monitor emerging trends for new technologies that can improve the delivery process➤ Evaluate projects early in their lifecycle to identify potential issues and work to resolve

Dublin, Ireland

Software Development Manager for several business-critical projects, working closely with development and product leadership to ensure deliverables are met and processes are streamlined. Responsibilities Included:➤ Manage a team of engineers & leads, and facilitate growth through coaching➤ Building teams from zero-to-one and ensuring they are self-sufficient in their ability to deliver➤ Maintain development standards and ensure cross-team consistency in architecture, frameworks, languages & tools➤ Monitoring resources and working with recruiters to meet hiring goals➤ Facilitating appropriate training / upskilling where needed➤ Partnering with key stakeholders to shape team direction, strategy and manage expectations➤ Defining OKRs each quarter and ensuring development teams are aligned➤ Encouraging collaboration between teams and improving on delivery processes➤ Enabling developers to innovate, experiment, and fail with safety➤ Active role in the interview process, including writing/reviewing code tests ➤ Organising team building events

Dublin, Ireland

Lead Developer (with several direct reports) overseeing the completion of various projects, refactors, and feature developments. All of which were built using Laravel on top of AWS infrastructure and connected to a suite of custom built microservices to allow for maximum scalability.Responsibilities Included:➤ Manage a team of developers➤ Develop and deliver key features for various projects➤ Research new technologies and implement them where possible➤ Maintain high standards of code quality, documentation, and information sharing➤ Work with Product and Project Managers to deliver releases on time➤ Work with QA team to streamline Dev to QA processes➤ Active role in interviewing development candidates, creating/reviewing code tests➤ On board new developers and encourage individual growth

Dublin

A Full Stack Developer hired to start the refactor of the affiliate marketing website Gambling.com. This involved porting an aging codebase over to Laravel and optimising the overall development process, allowing for future growth. This also included developing a RESTful API on the Lumen framework that could deliver vital data in a far more efficient manner.Technologies Used:➤ PHP/Laravel/Bref➤ Lumen/RESTful API Development➤ VueJS/AlpineJS/VanillaJS (ES6)➤ MySQL/MariaDB➤ HTML/Bootstrap/Tailwind/SCSS/CSS➤ AWS Infrastructure➤ Redis/Memcached➤ NPM/Webpack➤ Composer➤ GitHub➤ Jenkins/GitHub Actions➤ PHPUnit

County Dublin, Ireland

A Full Stack Developer working on a variety of different projects all of which were built using best practices on top of the latest technologies & cloud architecture. Some of these projects include the following:GAAGO.ie➤ Lead developer on this project for both 2016 & 2017 season releases ➤ Refactored codebase and ported to Laravel➤ Developed dedicated RESTful API service for US Roku App using Lumen framework.EvolutionX.io➤ Developer for a B2B multi-tenant eCommerce webstore designed for manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors.➤ Built using Laravel & VueJS, I assisted in developing both the admin panel and storefrontEvoAPI (https://docs.evoapi.io)➤ Developed a RESTful API that dealers used to programmatically interact with their EvoX Webstores.➤ Built using Lumen framework➤ Developed a suite of unit tests to check for failures on deploymentTechnologies Used:➤ Laravel➤ Lumen➤ VueJS➤ AWS Infrastructure including Elastic Beanstalk, Aurora, Cloudfront, Codepipeline, API Gateway, Lambda, S3, etc.➤ RESTful APIs➤ MySQL➤ PHP/Javascript/HTML/CSS

Merrion Square, Dublin 2

I provided freelance support in regards to STW's IT infrastructure. This included helping to develop, update and maintain several internal systems including their intranet and website (stwarchitects.com).Technologies Include:➤ ASP➤ C#➤ MVC➤ PHP➤ JavaScript➤ JQuery➤ Ajax➤ SQL

Www.Documentaryheaven.Com

Documentary Heaven (documentaryheaven.com) is a website I created and designed back in June of 2009, it is now widely recognised as a go to place for streaming documentary films online for free and a great resource for filmmakers themselves to publish their work to a wider audience. The site currently receives 100,000+ pageviews daily and this number continues to grow as time goes on. I have learnt a tremendous amount from running such a site, especially in regards to design, development, server maintenance & optimisation, SEO, customer support, etc.

Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2

As part of my Intra placement for 3rd year in DCU I worked for the web development company, MediaOne.My duties and responsibilities included:➤ Web Development➤ Resolving Customer Support Issues➤ Installing & Maintaining Servers➤ Testing

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Applications And Software Engineering

#4th Year Project: GrandJob.ie For my final year project I set about developing a complete web based solution for Ireland’s freelance.

Leaving Certificate, State Examination