About Me

Greetings! I am an Irish software engineer and technical leader with over fifteen years experience in mobile, web, backend and embedded technologies, currently living in Barcelona. I started at the bottom of the stack, writing debug development tools for the Symbian operating system. This included standalone tools, user space tools and kernel instrumentation.

After working on C++ point cloud analysis libraries for a while I decided to return to the world of mobile to check out the Android eco system, which has been my primary focus since 2011. Since then I have worked on a range of applications, from simple agenda style apps to full server driver widget engines to VOIP apps. I have also done the backend for some of these apps, using NodeJS, Postgres, MongoDB among others.

In the last few years, in addition to development, I have worked as the technical lead of an interdisciplinary team - web, mobile and backend. This has been a great experience - challenging but very rewarding. I have always been interested in the methodology that drives great software teams, both technical and organisational. I believe strongly in teams over rockstars and in providing the minimal amount of process required to drive a teams maximum stable velocity. Strategies like CI/CD and automated testing are very important to achieve these goals.