Part of a team of DevOps engineers managing and maintaining a large suite of configuration as code for the deployment of multiple SaaS apps in AWS.

• My father was ill in hospital for 7 months and passed away in May. He was my mother's carer and when he went into hospital I took a break from my career to return to Ireland and take care of things at home.• During that time I worked on some personal projects developing a multi-agent application of ChatGPT that combines my varied expertise in software development, literature, and philosophy, gaining hands-on experience with LLM APIs.• I am now looking for work again

• Sole DevOps engineer responsible for the deployment, design and implementation of a Jenkins instance and the CI/CD pipelines for 5 teams working on 16 projects in React and Kotlin. • Built and maintained a robust AWS infrastructure including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC, and Route53 setups, optimizing system performance and reliability. • Configured and managed a Kubernetes environment that supported scalable and secure containerized applications, leading to improved system uptime and resource utilization. • Developed custom Docker images and Jenkins shared libraries to streamline build processes and ensure consistency across development environments. • Authored Terraform scripts for infrastructure as code, reducing errors and speeding up provisioning. • Facilitated cross-team collaborations, working closely with internal Workday services, PM organizations, and security teams to meet audit and compliance requirements. • Led strategic planning sessions, prioritize backlogs and setting achievable deadlines that aligned with business goals. • Conducted weekly technical reviews with development teams to understand their needs and integrate feedback into the build environment, enhancing tool usability and efficiency.

I was responsible for the design, efficiency and robustness of the test automation of a development organization. Set best practices with the Automation Architect community, implemented improvements to the org’s CI pipelines, wrote a suite of scripts for gathering metrics and data visualization, implemented new strategies and features for pipeline performance improvement, re-engineered the test suite to increase reliability and reduce test times, and educated developers on test framework best practices.

I was a back-end Java developer on a team building tools for speeding up Workday implementation times, meaning huge savings for our customers in third party implementation fees. I designed and built a project to deliver Workday tenants from tenant-testing environments into production, and lead the development of an end-to-end pipeline for the team’s suite of products.

Responsible for creating and maintaining automation system tests for Recruiting feature development team, developed extensive system tests, and mentored graduates and new hires in the usage of the company's test automation language. In my spare time I created a utility to make diagnosing automation test failures a less time-consuming task.

Worked as part of the Test Operations team to ensure sufficient regression testing coverage on weekly patch updates before release to customer. Gained a broad perspective of the work carried out by the variety of teams required to deploy a frequently updated, SaaS based enterprise suite of applications in a test-driven, agile environment.