May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Dublin, Ireland

• A non-profit organisation helping the Rails ecosystem prosper. https://rubyonrails.org/foundation

Nov 2013 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Palo Alto, CA

Jan 2013 – Dec 2013 · 11 mos · Indonesia

Jan 2011 – Jun 2011 · 5 mos · Taiwan

Mar 2008 – Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Santa Clara County, California, United States

Jan 2008 – Present · 18 yrs 2 mos · Dublin, Ireland

Apr 2006 – Mar 2007 · 11 mos

• Responsible for the design and implementation of several web-based back office management applications for what is now RSA Adaptive Authentication, a tokenless two-factor authentication and fraud monitoring suite for financial institutions.
• Design, build, support and enhancement of J2EE/Struts/Spring-based back office application suite on a wide variety of J2EE platforms including Tomcat, WebSphere and WebLogic.
• Carried out re-brand of back office applications following RSA acquisition including integration with RSA UI look-and-feel and standards
• Provided advanced troubleshooting and implementation assistance for customer deployments including the implementation of customer-specific enhancements, patches and documentation.

Aug 2004 – Jan 2008 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Formed Edgespace, an entirely self-funded software consultancy company with a bunch of fellow graduates after finishing my Computer Science Degree. Ireland based, we were profitable from inception. The company provided a wide variety of technical skills mostly to Bay Area technology companies.
• We excelled at quickly becoming immersed in and understanding our clients' code base, understanding problems that need to be solved, and providing a timely and cost effective solution.

Aug 2004 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Developed Perl testing framework for client's web-based J2EE/JSP management console
• Created suite of automated tests for the management console using this framework
• Scoped and implemented bug fixes for J2EE/JSP/Struts-based management/monitoring console, Swing configuration application, UNIX scripts and long-running C++ background process.
• Implemented web management console and monitoring system feature enhancements
• Responsible for responding to customer support technical queries (tier 2 response)
• Built an automated web crawler that was used to map out a sophisticated web UI and then perform automated fussy/security testing. Application was written in OO Perl.

Jun 2004 – Sep 2004 · 3 mos

• Investigated and prototyped the concept of a "smart road". A "smart road" is a stretch of roadway equipped with a network of sensors that allows the roadway to sense the state of the road including the presence and behavior of vehicles and other road users such as pedestrians and cyclists as well as the conditions of the road surface and surrounding environment The project involved specifying the hardware and middleware needed to support a range of “smart road” applications and creating sample applications demonstrating this technology
• Involved in “Think Tank” type discussions on governmental initiatives.

Jun 2003 – Sep 2003 · 3 mos · Palo Alto, California

• Responsible for creating test documentation and procedures for a state of the art network monitoring system. Within this I developed a test framework using C, Java and Perl on the Windows and Linux platforms Involved in product development using C, Java and Perl.
• Trained members of the Sales Team on product deployment and operations.

Jun 2002 – Sep 2002 · 3 mos · Palo Alto, California