# Declan McCann

> Software Engineer

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/declan

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Bennie
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States (Remote)
Back end lead of core app team, charged with displaying employee benefits information to Bennie App users

• Designed and implemented RESTful APIs for a monolith and microservices using Go and C#/ASP.NET Core
• Maintained and improved microservices for distributed processing of data from integration partners using Go and GCP Pub/Sub
• Reduced initial app load time by 93% by optimizing DB queries and indexes in Postgres
• Decreased test execution time for an automated integration test suite in a monolith application from 90 minutes to 4 minutes using ASP.NET Core, Docker, and xUnit
• Implemented postmortem process to perform root cause analysis on production incidents

### Software Engineer @ MikMak
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States (Remote)
Full stack software engineer on Insights team, charged with displaying eCommerce ad experience data to clients

• Led implementation of several microservices to enable customers to view their eCommerce advertisement performance using TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes running on Google Cloud Platform infrastructure with Vue.js frontends
• Created common frontend components for use by all development teams using Vue.js

### Software Engineer @ Namely
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
Key member of Payroll Post-Processing team, charged with handling Payroll functionality after processing.

• Broke down monolith applications into a microservices architecture using C#/.NET Core, gRPC and Protocol Buffers, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Migrated the Payroll project’s quarterly tax remittance file generation from SQL Stored Procedures to a C#/.NET Core application, cutting generation time by 75%
• Initiated a template project for spinning up C#/.NET Core microservices on the company’s infrastructure, which decreased the time to create and deploy a new .NET Core microservice by a full day
• Created DB integration tests for the greenfield Benefits Enrollment Wizard project running in CI using Docker, C#/.NET Core, and Jenkins
• Expanded a service to seed a legacy database with test data, allowing formerly untestable code to be tested
• Created an end-to-end automated test framework using Selenium WebDriver, C#/.NET Core, and Docker running from Jenkins which caught dozens of bugs before and immediately after releases

### Software Engineer @ Digital Guardian
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
• Created custom “keyword libraries” for Robot Framework using Python, Selenium WebDriver, and AutoIt 
• Refactored the UI automation framework to decrease test runtime using C# and Selenium WebDriver

### Software Engineer in Test @ NGP VAN
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
• Created end-to-end API tests using C# and xUnit
• Troubleshot and fixed bugs in the company products using C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, and T-SQL

### SQA Engineer II - Automation @ AIR Worldwide
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Key member of the QA department's Automation team

• Built a test automation framework for the corporate website using C#, Selenium WebDriver, and SpecFlow
• Worked with developers, product managers, and other QA engineers to effectively automate test plans

### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Boston College
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States
Teaching Assistant for the CS department's Computer Algorithms course

• Held office hours to assist students with course material
• Graded student homework assignments


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA
Boston College
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/declan-mccann-2628771ab

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Source: https://flows.cv/declan
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/declan/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22