Portfolio

Versatile software engineer based in Dublin, Ireland, with experience designing and maintaining backend systems, data workflows, and development infrastructure. Certified in Java and AWS. Strong foundation in Java, PHP, Python, SQL, and Linux environments, with practical experience building reliable services, automating processes, and improving software delivery through CI/CD practices. Comfortable working across the software lifecycle, including system design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support, with focus on maintainability, clarity, and pragmatic engineering solutions. Always eager to learn new technologies and take on new challenges.

Skills

Backend Engineering

Expert

Designing and maintaining backend systems, data workflows, and development infrastructure. ORMs, REST APIs, microservices, and serverless architectures.

Scrapping

Expert

Extracting data from websites and APIs using tools such as regex, proxies, requests-html, and Selenium. Experience with data cleaning and transformation to ensure data quality and usability.

CI/CD

Advanced

Implementing continuous integration and deployment pipelines to automate software delivery and improve development workflows. Github Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, and AWS CodePipeline.

Testing

Advanced

Writing unit, regressive, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure software quality and reliability. Familiar with testing frameworks such as JUnit, PHPUnit, PyTest, and Selenium.

Relational Database Design

Advanced

Designing, profiling, and optimising relational database schemas and queries. Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

Systems Administration

Advanced

Managing Linux environments, including server configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, and containerisation technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Data Engineering

Intermediate

Building data pipelines, managing databases, and ensuring data quality and reliability. Experience with ETL processes, data warehousing, and big data technologies such as Hadoop and Spark.

Frontend Development

Advanced

Building user interfaces and client-side applications using vanilla HTML, CSS, Sass, and JavaScript. Frameworks include React.js.

Public projects

Global Conciousness Project Monitor

A chatbot that announces significative deviations in the Global Conciousness Project real-time data and announces it to a Discord server.
Boiler Announcer

A WhatsApp bot that announces boiler status based on unintrusive, real-time microphone input.
Ragnarok Updater

An effort to reverse engineer the source code of the International Ragnarok Online updater for Windows.