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Ciarán is the CTO of Skimlinks where he leads the technical innovation for Skimlinks' products and the platform's infrastructure. Before joining Skimlinks, Ciarán worked in Ireland as Head of Engineering at one of the country's largest mobile communications companies.
Experience
CTO
@Skimlinks
Directly responsible for all of Skimlinks’ engineering

Build, train, and manage an engineering team of 20+

Implemented a flexible team based agile management style with scrum methodology

Crafted the technical vision, design and business justifications for all core platforms

Developed an API backed service oriented architecture

Architected a scalable, globally load balanced, redundant infrastructure on AWS

Completed due diligence and successful technical merger with competitor (AtmaLinks)

Big Data analytics platform
Location
London, United Kingdom
Dates
October 2008 - Present
Website
http://skimlinks.com/
President & PHP UK Conference
@PHP London
Details
Elected to act as spokesperson for the company and master of ceremonies at meetings and conference events

Organise agenda and speakers for monthly meetings

Facilitate networking at events

Responsible for all planning, logistics, speakers, project management of the event and venue and management for the PHP UK Conference

Master of Ceremonies, delivering the opening and closing address of the Conference

PHP UK Conference was attended by 1,035 delegates over over two days with 26 Speakers delivering 36 Talks, Keynotes and Panels
Location
London, United Kingdom
Dates
June 2011 - Present
Website
http://www.phpconference.co.uk/
Lead Developer
@Skimbit
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Established business and engineering processes within the company

Managed server-side software development

Participated in all aspects of the application development process, from requirements definition to implementation

Managed local and remote developers in on-going development of Skimits’ core platform
Location
London, United Kingdom
Dates
June 2008 - October 2008
Website
http://skimit.com
Head of Engineering
@Realm Communications
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Responsible for overseeing all technical developments within the company

Retained all original duties as web developer and continued to develop new online services

Developed many SMS applications, including various text and subscription based APIs for SMS and web services

Maintained of all the IVR, SMS and web servers and to keep company's services online and operational

Acted as first point of contact for the engineering department, as well as externally with publishing partners and key advertisers

Trained and managed sys admins and devs
Location
Dublin, Ireland
Dates
March 2007 - July 2008
Website
http://realm.ie/
Web Developer and System Admin
@Realm Communications
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Responsible for the development, design, implementation, and testing of new online web services functionality and code

Assisted the Head of Engineering in the daily management of Realm’s fleet of SMS and IVR services

Completed the development of their flagship web product, which required complex backend and front-end systems that facilitated Live AJAX powered public and private webchat and daily and monthly delivery of subscriptions.

Managed contract web designers for the duration of the project
Location
Dublin, Ireland
Dates
September 2006 - March 2007
Website
http://realm.ie/
CEO & Co Founder
@Weeno Ltd
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Acted as lead developer, creating custom CMS applications using the LAMP stack with AJAX interfaces

Actively participated in the Irish and UK early web 2.0 communities

Interacted with and strived to provide clients who had limited web knowledge with bespoke solutions that meet their needs, i.e. often developed unique CMS for individual clients based on a existing framework that we had developed
Location
Dublin, Ireland
Dates
2005 - 2008
Website
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/weeno-media
Education
H.N.D in Multimedia
@Ballyfermot Media College
Grade: Distinction (first class honours)

Coursework completed included web development and design, print production, 3D, video and audio editing

Final year project involved developing a fully operational CMS and Shopping Cart for an external client
Location
Dublin, Ireland
Dates
2004 - 2006
B Eng. Digital Media Engineeri
@Dublin City University
Details
Completed two years of a B.Eng in Digital Media Engineering, transferred in order to concentrate on Web Development specialization

Coursework completed include: C Programming, Digital Circuits, Binary and Digital Signals
Location
Dublin, Ireland
Dates
2002 - 2004