Software generalist with a wide range of experience, primarily using Java and Scala on the server side. This experience spans all stages of the software development lifecycle from architecture and design, through to operation & maintenance of live production systems (application & infrastructure).

Experience

BoxStaff Software Engineer

2017 — Now

Redwood City, California

NestStaff Software Engineer

2014 — 2017

Palo Alto, CA

Staff Software Engineer on the Real Time Services (RTS) team. RTS is responsible for most of the systems that end users and their devices interact with.

Keywords: Scala, Finagle, Kafka, Protobuf, MySQL, Cassandra, Apache Storm, Puppet, AWS, Memcached

GoogleStaff Software Engineer

2014 — 2017

Palo Alto, CA

Working on the Nest Backend Services

LinkedInStaff Software Engineer

2010 — 2014

I worked as part of the Communications team which was responsible for member emails and the Linkedin Inbox. Email is a critical channel for Linkedin to interact with members with a significant portion of site traffic and growth being generated by some of those emails.

I started off as a Senior Software Engineer, ultimately becoming a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead for Email Infrastructure.

Keywords: Java, Scala, Spring, JDBC, Oracle, JMS, Voldemort, Kafka, Espresso, Memcache, SOA, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Rest.li, Avro.

AKQASenior Software Engineer (Contract)

2009 — 2009

Short term Groovy on Grails contract working on a health care provider website - https://www.virtuwell.com/

Keywords: Groovy on Grails, Spring Security, jQuery

Education

Dublin City University

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Education

BSc. (Honours)

Experience