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Berlin, Berlin, De

Berlin, Berlin, De

San Francisco, California, Us

Intercom is an online messaging platform that allows companies to better support, enable, and empower their customers.Key Wins- Lead the message delivery team, which owns the delivery of all outbound real-time, mobile-push, web-messenger, and email messages sent from the Intercom platform- Email deliverability is a key concern of the team- Helped introduce real-time metrics/monitoring/alarming to better support email deliverability- Oversaw introduction of dedicated personnel to support email deliverability monitoring & maintenance- Delivered on major infrastructure projects to better manage the separation of our customers’ email across meta-data, content, and compliance concerns- Helped develop formal progression path for Customer Support Engineers to become Product Engineers

Dublin, Dublin, Ie

xSellco run a suite of products to help ecommerce sellers better support their customers, from a single platform.Technology- Introduced fully automated, scalable fleets, replacing manually configured & managed cloud infrastructure- Introduced automated test & zero-downtime deployment systems to support new auto-scaling setup- Lead migration from a manually managed MySQL clusters to a fully self-managed, auto-scaling Amazon Aurora setup- Introduced real-time metrics, monitoring, & alarming to support new scalable infrastructure- Set up paging system & rota to enable better alerting of outages- Planned & supported a new data migration pipeline to merge multiple overlapping cross-geo datasets into a single data location with zero downtimePeople / Process- Trained engineers on triage & prioritisation of issues- Introduced out-of-hours paging rota for key team members- Trained & encouraged modern code-review practices, enabling better and more directed mentoring and progression for more junior team members- Encouraged attitude of ownership and pride in team’s work, pushing for better quality planning & execution- Overhauled hiring processes and trained senior engineers to help grow the team from within- Helped coach and grow engineers through career paths resulting in progression / promotions- Introduced regular feedback and recognition of team members for work well done- Defined clear success metrics and framework for communication for stakeholders

Dublin, Dublin, Ie

Dublin, Ie

CurrencyFair is a peer-to-peer marketplace, allowing customers to exchange and send their money overseas, providing significant savings in both time & money when compared to using traditional banks.Key Wins- Full migration of original infrastructure to an automated, easily scalable, modern and reliable setup- Zero downtime release process for a financial trading platform- Introduction of an API to power key business processes- Helped to build out the engineering team from scratch to 25, with 5 distinct teams- Fostered a strong mentality in squad for building the right solutionTeam- Helped build a team of 25 engineers from scratch- Key member of technical team, providing insight & advice across many business areas- Mentor for engineers at all levels, encouraging the application of good judgement and planning, along with focus on doing things the right way, not the fast way- Driver of strong cultural development and support within the company- Lead team towards the development and introduction of an API to power our mobile applications (iOS and Android) and backend servicesInfrastructure- Introduction of AWS cloud services- Secure expansion of data centre into AWS cloud- Full automation and replication of staging and production environments across multiple zones and regions for automatic, global failover of services- CDN-powered web frontends, providing ample space for growth, and protection against spikes in web trafficAutomation- Zero downtime, fully automated deployment of code across testing, staging & production- Automated environments across dev, staging & productionTechnologies- Multi-language stack, including Java based service tier, multiple PHP (Zend Framework 2) based frontends & a Thrift data transport layer- Integration of multiple database technologies based on usage requirements, including Oracle, Redis, MySQL & AWS ElastiCache- Extensive use of AWS technologies, such as EC2, S3, CloudFront, RDS, ElastiCache, VPC and Route53

Dublin, Ie

South San Francisco,, Ca, Us

Scrazzl is a search and marketing platform for science researchers and manufacturers, developed with the aim of helping scientists and suppliers of scientific products to communicate and connect more efficiently.Senior PHP Engineer- Assisted CTO in the development of a Zend Framework based document analysis system- Built a custom analytics solution using MongoDB and PHP- Created analytics interfaces using JavaScript, CSS and HTML to allow users to visually interact with our analytics dataEC2 infrastructure design, implementation, development & maintenance- Auto code deployment system using Github & PHP- Auto system backups sent to S3- AMI creation for instant ramp up/down of servers to handle loadSolr cluster development & maintenance- ‘Big data’ analysis using Solr, MongoDB & PHP- Content analysis across millions of scientific research articlesMongoDB integration & monitoring- Replication & Backup processes- Public presentation to the first Mongo Users Group meeting in Dublin, displaying how Scrazzl was using MongoDB, and the difficulties faced- JavaScript widget development- In-article content highlighting and contextual click tracking- Scrazzl.com UI widgets for analytics and research interfaces (for scientists)

Dublin, Ifsc, Ie

My main responsibilities at dotMobi revolved around DeviceAtlas and its various subsystems, and assisting the IT Operations Architect in the day to day running of dotMobi's sites & services through the administration and maintenance of their Amazon EC2 infrastructure.* Lead developer on DeviceAtlas - a mobile device detection system for websites.* EC2 infrastructure design, maintenance, deployment management and auto-scaling* MySQL management, replication & administration* Creator of a mobile browser test Suite ( http://ta-da.mobi ) for the capture of device data, for population in the DeviceAtlas database

Dublin 1, Ie

PHP consultancy with various clients, including the Department of Education (Ireland)Core framework extension and modificationSVN in-house administration and training

Dublin City, County Dublin, Ie

While at Web Reservations I worked as part of the development team for Boo.com.This also included the regular development and maintenance of the existing web properties (such as hostelworld.com) on an ongoing basis.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Software Engineering

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