Software Engineer

CURRENT

Company: Red Hat

Position: Software Engineering

From: 2026/01 to current

Software engineering role at Red Hat in Waterford, Ireland.

Skill developed: Software Engineering

DNA Computing Research

CURRENT

Company: Maynooth University

Position: Physics, Software Engineering, Maths, Algorithms

From: 2024/09 to 2025/05

• - Further developing summer work as Final Year Project
• - Currently writing thesis about summer work
• - Implemented a simulation for the kTAM + Blockers DNA Computing model in Rust

Skill developed: Rust, Python

DNA Computing Research Internship

Company: Maynooth University.

Position: Physics, Software Engineering, Maths, Algorithms

From: 2024/02 to 2024/09

• - Contributed to the implementation of a simulator for the Single Scaffolded DNA model in the rgrow library
• - Developed experience with Rust
• - Developed Python FFI bindings for the Rust simulator
• - Worked on Python library to simplify the interaction with the Rust simulator

Skill developed: Rust, Python

Computer Science Demonstrator

Company: Maynooth University.

Position: Physics, Software Engineering, Maths, Algorithms

From: 2024/02 to 2024/09

• Tasked with helping students with:
  • - Python
  • - Java
  • - Object Oriented Design Principles
• Python API Development: Created a Python API using Rusts Foreign Function Interface (FFI) to allow seamless interaction between Python and the Rust-based simulation code.

Skill developed: Python, Java, Object Oriented Design Principles

Geospatial Server in Rust - SimplexSpatial

Company: SimplexPortal LTD.

Position: Data Structures and Algorithms, Software Development

From: 2022/12 to 2023/09

• -Implemented a concurrent Geospatial Server with Rust and Scala
• -Built and Documented API for clients to use
• -Served as proof of concept for future distributed version

Skill developed: Rust, Docker, Scala, Spark, Data Structures, Algorithms, Graph Networks, Flatbuffer

TCGLand

Company: TCG LAND, S.A.P.I

Position: Backend Development

From: 2022/09 to 2022/12

• - Migrated part of the website backend from JavaScript to Go
• - Developed web scrapers in Go
• - Implemented round-robin load balancing and bandwidth throttling

Skill developed: Scala, Go

CryptoExchange

Company: SimplexPortal LTD.

Position: Junior Software Developer

From: 2022/05 to 2022/09

Cryptocurrency Exchanges data ingestion implementation:

• - Implementation of a framework in Scala to scrape APIs via metadata configurations.
• - Ingested data from more than 20 cryptocurrency exchanges.
• - Maintenance of Airflow pipelines.
• - Simple public site to show current state of data.

Skill developed: Scala, Python, Airflow, API scrapper, HTML/CSS/Astro