Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
10+ years of experience in software engineering and technical leadership, I specialize in architecting massively scalable systems(with a specialization in scalable messaging systems/Ads systems) and aligning cross-functional teams toward impactful goals. I thrive in 0->1 fast paced environments, or jumping into gnarly technical areas to fix pressing business problems.
Atlas Platform
Community - helped local businesses setup Ad accounts, and hand-held them through their lead collection journies, Volunteering Trading - Tried out a variety of trading "ideologies", honing in on sweet-spot.
Partnered with senior engineering leadership to establish a new engineering team thus 2x'ing the Messenger Presence team, jointly developing multi-year strategy and roadmaps. [messaging] Led team to exceed goals including the single largest growth of Top level company metric for Facebook/Messenger -(Young Adults usage) in year 2022 measured across 100+ teams. Also - Architected unification of Messenger, Instagram, and Facebook presence systems, saving ~$10M annually - Reduced maintenance overhead by 33% and cut developer time for new cross-platform features by 40% by unifying - Decreased high-priority outages by 65% by simplifying into a unified, scalable infrastructure. Achieved 10% top line growth in Community messaging DAU by leading as tech lead and PM , a 10 person v-team, for implementing presence signals for Community Messaging [Ads] Drove the execution of the business messaging Leads team with a fresh roadmap, quadrupled the team goals and improved org goals by 25%. [Ads] Led cross-functional alpha/beta pilots for the company-wide launch of Private Lift measurement (multi-party computation), collaborating with large advertisers to validate product readiness. Recruited and onboarded over 10 engineers from boot camp. Mentored and coached more than 20 engineers, accelerating promotions to staff and senior levels by collaborating with managers across teams
Orchestrated cross-organizational strategy between two 35+ engineer groups (Ads and Core Infra) to define and align shared roadmaps. Generated over $10M in annual revenue by leading and/or shipping high-impact advertising features, including Themed Ads and Dynamic Ad Load support. Co-founded, built, and evangelized the company-wide migration to a new asynchronous queuing system replacing self-hosted Gearman servers and reducing queue outages by 80%. Led company-wide initiative to support the company's multi-datacenter strategy by reducing read traffic to the master datacenter by 90% through building systems that simplified configuration, testing, and monitoring. Onboarded/mentored 10+ engineers. Conducted 100+ technical interviews.
Intern in the TACC team.