Experience

• Vouch Insurance7 yrs

  Y Combinator-backed insurtech providing business insurance for startups and high-growth companies. Vouch’s technology platform was acquired by Hiscox in June 2025.

  Principal Software Engineer 2023 – Present Dublin, Ireland

  Lead Software Engineer 2022 – 2023 Dublin, Ireland

  Senior Software Engineer 2019 – 2022 Dublin, Ireland

  First engineering hire. Grew from Senior Engineer to Principal IC as the team scaled.

  • Built the policy administration system, an event-sourced engine that handles pricing, billing, and endorsement previews from the same projection.
  • Built underwriting and quoting tools, document generation workflows, and a recommendation system for coverage selection.
  • Worked across the full stack: React frontend, TypeScript and Python services, Rails APIs, AWS infrastructure.
• Funding Circle4 yrs

  Peer-to-peer lending platform for small businesses. IPO on the London Stock Exchange in 2018 (LON: FCH).

  Senior Software Engineer 2015 – 2018 London, United Kingdom

  Software Engineer 2014 – 2015 San Francisco, United States

  Platform and infrastructure engineering.

  • Migrated production workloads from Chef-provisioned AWS instances to Docker containers running under Mesos, Marathon, and Chronos.
  • Built an event-driven Clojure and Kafka Streams application for investor loan-part ownership, borrower repayment distribution, and the public Investor API. Reduced API response times by two orders of magnitude; repayment distribution went from hours to seconds.
  • Built a CLI tool that detects and deploys application dependencies automatically, so engineers could spin up production-like AWS environments for integration tests across dozens of services.
  • Replaced long-lived static secrets with short-lived per-container dynamic secrets using Vault and envconsul, with a PR-based permissions workflow reviewed by Security.
  • Deployed and operated Mesos, ZooKeeper, Kafka, and Consul clusters on AWS with Terraform. Supported 200+ microservices across 3 regions.
  • Built logging and monitoring pipelines (~500M logs/day), standardized Jenkins Pipelines, and ran an internal HAProxy/Consul service mesh.
• Popdeem2 yrs

  Social rewards platform enabling brands to reward customers for sharing on social media.

  CTO / Co-Founder

  2012 – 2014 Dublin, Ireland

  Sole technical founder and primary IC; built the product from the ground up.

  • Consumer-facing iOS and Android apps for earning rewards through social sharing
  • Rails API backend powering reward redemption and social verification
  • Admin dashboard for brands to manage campaigns and track engagement
  • AWS infrastructure and deployment

  Went through the Wayra accelerator programme. Raised over €1.1M from Delta Partners, Enterprise Ireland, and angel investors.

• Contracting4 yrs Software Developer

  2009 – 2013 Dublin, Ireland

  Clients included Sisk Ireland, Sisk Medical, TEKNO Surgical, Synapse Medical, Origo, CoffeeTable, MED Surgical, Cardiac Services, and Lovin Dublin.

Education

• Trinity College Dublin BA (Mod) Computer Science, 2:1 (Upper Second-Class Honours)

  2009 – 2013 Dublin, Ireland

Skills