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Chief Product Engineer

Mathematics and Economics graduate with 20+ years in engineering and leadership roles:
* CTO
* Director/Chief of Product Engineering
* Head of Data

Track record managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects across fintech, telecoms, payments, blockchain and aid sectors.

Delivered scalable hybrid solutions across web2 and web3 ecosystems.

Full product lifecycle ownership:
* stakeholder management,
* roadmap development,
* viability assessment.

Blockchain: decentralized identity (DID), stablecoin integration, multi-chain development (Algorand, Solana, Hedera), Tokenization.

Data Engineering: Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Apache NiFi, RDBMS, AWS, Java, Javascript/TypeScript, Clojure, Rust.

Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $0

Hourly rate: $0

Nationality: 🇮🇪 Ireland

Residency: 🇮🇪 Ireland

Experience

Chief Product Engineer (Interim)

BetYa.AI

2025 - 2025

Architecting a multi-agent system using LangGraph/LangFlow and real-time RAG. Enabling natural language trade execution by developing and refining an AI parser that translates conversational text into transactions. Solana: smart contracts, on-chain betting, USDC payment, and trade settlement. Design, iterate and deliver a high-performance, mobile-first wallet UX featuring an embedded agent, live odds, and tap-to-bet functionality.

Director of Product Engineering

AID:Tech

2022 - 2025

Directed engineering and delivery of AIDTech’s Kare payments platform, managing remote cross-functional teams and external partners. Deployed white-label wallets on a hybrid web2/web3 platform across US and Asia. Successful grant/investment rounds from Algorand, Emurgo, Avalanche, Hedera. Collaborated with founders, NGOs, and integration partners to identify pain points, define technical roadmaps, design and execute solutions.

Head of Data Technology

Core Media (AdTech)

2019 - 2022

Took ownership of a multimillion-euro data platform, collaborating with C-suite and engineering teams to evaluate architecture, define strategic roadmaps, and deliver to clients by end of 2019.

Investigator/Founder

KetoFoo.com (Food Tech)

2018 - 2020

Sabbatical to explore entrepreneurship in food tech. Undertook postgraduate studies (Food Science & Technology). Developed a deeper understanding of product development and research.

Principal Architect Manager

Teradata Consulting

2016 - 2018

Led full-lifecycle 'big data' consultancy projects for Fortune 500 clients. Full client handholding from investigation, to architecture to management and delivery.

Technical Architect

Aviso

2014 - 2016

EFT Switch/Payments Processing environment (Payment Switch, Dynamic Currency Conversion, EMV Compliance). Deconstruct the monolithic system into a series of microservices.

Principal Engineer (R&D, Data Platform Lead)

Boxever (Customer 360 Analytics)

2014 - 2014

Customer 360 analytics for travel industry. Partnered with the CTO to establish a dedicated platform team.

Lead Solution Architect - Data Engineering

Dun & Bradstreet Ireland (DBIS)

2012 - 2014

Development Manager for a new Risk Management Solution platform (eventually accounting for $400m of revenue). Leading both local and remote teams of technical resources.

Solution Architect - Mobile Payments Processing

Sumup (contract)

2012 - 2012

CTO - FinTech

ViZi / NDRC/ CashIQ

2009 - 2012

Skills

big-data

blockchain

business-development

engineering-manager

kyc

project-manager

solana

product-manager

english

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