cm2025
Chief Architect
I’m a Software guy who loves turning complex challenges into elegant, scalable solutions. My career has taken me through building high-traffic platforms, guiding teams through major technical shifts, and designing systems that can grow without breaking.
What I bring to the table:
- Architecture for scale (distributed systems, cloud-native design, data-intensive applications, blockchain)
- Rapid prototyping without sacrificing future growth
- Technical due diligence & advisory for founders/investors
- Coaching engineers and shaping lean, effective teams
What I bring to the table:
- Architecture for scale (distributed systems, cloud-native design, data-intensive applications, blockchain)
- Rapid prototyping without sacrificing future growth
- Technical due diligence & advisory for founders/investors
- Coaching engineers and shaping lean, effective teams
Experience: 11 years
Yearly salary: $150,000
Hourly rate: $85
Nationality: 🇮🇪 Ireland
Residency: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Experience
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (CONTRACT)
SYNCHRONOSS 2020 - 2020
Hired to maintain existing mature Java codebase and assist with Kubernetes transition. Helped in migrating specific services from Spring to Spring Boot.
CO-FOUNDER
TUPLESTREAM 2020 - 2021
Co-founder of a SaaS platform offering cost-effective log management and distributed tracing for Kubernetes. Stack was a mix of Rust, Swift and Golang. Oversaw all architectural decisions.
SENIOR TECHNICAL LEAD
WEB SUMMIT 2018 - 2019
Designed and implemented transition from hand-rolled deployment processes to modern CI/CD tooling, e.g. Kubernetes, Vault, Linkerd. Introduced lunch-and-learn sessions, helped formalise technical hiring process.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
JET.COM 2017 - 2018
Responsible for initial implementation of a service to consolidate carrier data between Jet and Walmart, using F# and Kafka. Also took on various devops responsibilities.
VARIOUS TITLES
LOGENTRIES (ACQUIRED BY RAPID7) 2013 - 2017
4th engineering hire (8th overall employee) at a Logging startup which was acquired in 2015 for $68M. Held various senior engineer, team lead and architect positions. Developed proprietary query language and execution engine, designed and implemented several iterative changes to the log storage infrastructure.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER (CONTRACT)
DELL 2013 - 2013
Sole engineer building Dell’s prototype logging service in the Cloud R&D lab. Service was based on Flume, HBase and Solr Cloud.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER (CONTRACT)
SUSQUEHANNA IRELAND LTD 2012 - 2012
Joined the trading tools team to develop connectors for various new exchanges and messaging technologies, primarily Tibco with C#.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER (CONTRACT)
EVEVE SOFTWARE LTD 2010 - 2010
Tasked with porting a proprietary C-based virtual machine, the cornerstone of the business, from Windows to Linux.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER (CONTRACT)
FX CAPITAL GROUP 2009 - 2009
Worked on a team developing a B2B currency-trading platform using JRuby, Rails and MacRuby.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
RAWNET 2008 - 2009
Developed Ruby on Rails applications for a variety of clients. Also responsible for deployment automation and sysadmin.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
FST GROUP 2007 - 2008
Web developer in an advertising agency building applications for clients. I initiated the team’s transition from PHP to Ruby on Rails.
Skills
devops
engineering-manager
golang
java
solana
strategy
english