About
Delivery-focused technology leader with 15+ years of experience owning and executing complex, cross-functional software initiatives across financial services, AI, and cloud-native enterprise environments. Proven track record of leading end-to-end delivery, aligning engineering, product, and operations teams, and driving execution in fast-moving, high-stakes contexts. Technically fluent (Python, AWS, modern cloud architectures) with deep expertise in Agile, DevOps, and operational excellence, and a strong bias toward customer impact, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Experience
Founder & AI Integrations Lead
ABL Media Group
Sep 2025 – Present • Dublin, Ireland
Lead AI pilots for Irish SMEs from idea to live proof-of-concept in ~30 days; design workflow automations and guardrails for ethical, measurable impact.
Feature Lead
Bank of America
Jun 2023 – Sep 2025 • Dublin, Ireland
Owned end-to-end delivery of a regulatory reconciliation platform within a larger enterprise reporting ecosystem, coordinating a distributed team of backend, frontend, and QA engineers across Dublin and India. Led the design and implementation of secure, scalable backend services using Python (Flask) with an Oracle data store, enabling accurate adjustments and corrections across multiple upstream and downstream systems. Acted as primary delivery owner, accountable for timelines, release quality, and production readiness, working closely with business stakeholders, operations, and QA to drive user acceptance testing and go-live readiness. Defined and delivered well-documented APIs (Swagger/OpenAPI) to enable effective frontend integration and smooth cross-team handover. Delivered critical functionality that identified ledger and sub-ledger discrepancies, enabling timely adjustments and ensuring regulatory reporting accuracy and compliance in a highly controlled environment.
Senior Software Developer
Vectra AI
Dec 2021 – Mar 2023 • Dublin, Ireland
Contributed to a customer-facing AI-driven SaaS platform for network security monitoring and threat detection, operating in a high-availability, production environment. Developed and maintained backend services in Python, supporting continuous delivery via CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure managed with Terraform. Deployed and operated services on AWS using Kubernetes, contributing to scalable and reliable runtime environments. Worked within an agile team delivering frequent updates to staging and production, with a strong emphasis on operational stability and code quality.
Senior Backend Developer
Overcast HQ
Nov 2020 – Nov 2021 • Dublin, Ireland
Acted as the primary technical driver for introducing a serverless architecture for a customer-facing Media Asset Management platform, working closely with the CTO and engineering leadership. Designed, implemented, and delivered backend services in Python using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, S3, and AWS SAM, enabling fast iteration and scalable, event-driven workflows. Owned the end-to-end delivery of serverless components, including infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, and release readiness, supporting frequent production releases in a high-velocity environment. Helped transition the platform to on-demand capacity allocation, resulting in approximately 50% reduction in AWS infrastructure costs while maintaining reliability and performance. Operated in a fast-paced, feedback-driven team with daily production releases, emphasizing operational simplicity, automation, and rapid delivery of customer value.
Program Manager
Feb 2020 – Aug 2020 • Dublin, Ireland
Owned delivery of an internal infrastructure tooling initiative supporting data center operations, coordinating a team of engineers and on-site field personnel. Led the development of a cable labeling and management system that mapped the origin and destination of physical network cables against data center blueprints. Coordinated delivery milestones, priorities, and readiness across engineering and field operations teams working in live data center environments. Delivered a solution enabling technicians to identify any cable in a data center via barcode scanning on tablet devices, improving operational accuracy and traceability for large-scale infrastructure deployments.
Scrum Master
BNP Paribas Securities Services
Mar 2017 – Feb 2020 • Dublin, Ireland
Led delivery for a greenfield, customer-facing platform developed within the Innovation Lab, managing a cross-functional team of ~15 engineers and UX/UI designers. Owned day-to-day execution and delivery cadence, facilitating Scrum ceremonies, maintaining delivery pipelines, and personally driving the first 10+ production releases of the platform. Coordinated closely with CTO, COO, and local Innovation Lab leadership to align delivery priorities, timelines, and platform readiness. Oversaw the initial platform setup, including ordering and provisioning physical servers to specification and ensuring infrastructure readiness to support the application. Established delivery processes and working practices for a newly formed team, enabling consistent execution and predictable release cycles.
Education
Letterkenny Institute of Technology
Diploma in Emerging Information Technology for Industry
Computer & Information Sciences
Sep 2020 – Jun 2021
Code Institute
Diploma in Software Development
Computer Science
Sep 2019 – Jul 2020
Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Coursework (4 years)
Computer Programming & Mathematics
Sep 2001 – Jul 2005