Building Systems
That Scale.
Senior Software Engineer with 14+ years delivering backend systems across Europe's regulated sectors: Fintech, GovTech and Agritech.
I specialise in compliance-aware distributed architecture: building and transforming cloud-native platforms where data integrity, system availability and regulatory requirements are non-negotiable.
Dairymaster Active
Senior SWE developing mission-critical farm management systems: real-time IoT data, cloud-native services, 1,000's farms globally.
What's Next In Progress
- 01AWS Certified Solutions Architect: formalising the infra I've been building on for years.
- 02Training on European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
Architecture Log
Senior Software Engineer
"Transforming legacy enterprise systems into high-performance cloud architectures, migrating monolithic platforms to cloud-native services now serving 1,000's farms globally."
- Services Transformation: Architected and led delivery of a cloud-native platform serving 1,000's farms globally using AWS ECS, EKS and Infrastructure as Code, guiding engineers through the full migration lifecycle.
- Mission Critical Operations: Engineered real-time monitoring system and APIs, meeting SLA uptime goals for time-sensitive dairy operations.
- DevSecOps Excellence: Defined and drove adoption of DevSecOps practices across the team: ELK/Prometheus/Grafana observability, GitLab CI/CD with ArgoCD and Helm, with security-gated pipeline standards.
- Edge-to-Cloud Data Sync: Designed a CDC pipeline enabling real-time bi-directional Edge-to-Cloud synchronization between IoT farm sensors and globally distributed cloud systems.
Software Engineer
Modernised Ireland's public sector systems: migrating legacy Apache Struts/JavaEE monoliths to Spring Boot microservices and refactoring PL/SQL into RESTful SOA APIs, working directly with government stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical architecture for services used by millions of citizens.
The Foundation
Deployed UTS Insearch on AWS China (CN): a separately governed partition with distinct compliance requirements. Mobile-first build for Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan via CloudFront CDN and native Chinese social integrations.
Delivered financial and insurance software for Tier-1 European institutions including AXA, BNP Paribas and Société Générale, building within compliance frameworks governed by MiFID, Basel II, Solvency II and PCI DSS standards, and early exposure to the rigour of regulated financial services delivery.
Early exposure to Azure, .NET, and Open XML document formats.
The Toolkit
Languages
Cloud & Infra
- AWS (EKS, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB)
- Terraform (IaC)
- Docker & Kubernetes
- ELK / Prometheus / Grafana
Frameworks
Compliance & Security
Writing
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