Software engineer
Backend Engineer, DevOps
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Summary
Software Engineer with hands-on production experience building IoT backend systems, real-time event-driven data pipelines, and full-stack dashboards using Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka. Experienced in diagnosing and resolving critical production issues through systematic log analysis, and collaborating directly with clients to deliver software end-to-end. Holds an MSc in Cloud Computing from National College of Ireland, with research focused on distributed system performance optimisation using reinforcement learning. Seeking a backend, cloud, or SRE engineering role in Dublin.
Experience
Software Engineer
Solbione Jan 2023 - Feb 2024Designed and implemented IoT data pipelines using MQTT and Kafka, enabling reliable device-to-server communication for smart appliances. Diagnosed and resolved a critical data sorting issue in the IoT ingestion pipeline by systematically analysing production logs across the device-to-server data flow, restoring data accuracy and system reliability for the live rice cooker platform. Developed full-stack dashboards using Vue.js, Spring Boot, WebSocket and MySQL for real-time device data visualisation. Led the steam oven integration project end-to-end – collaborating directly with hardware clients to gather requirements, align technical specifications, and validate deliverables through iterative feedback cycles.
Education
MSc Cloud Computing
National College of Ireland 2024 - 2025Thesis: “Energy-Latency Trade-Off Aware Load Balancing in Fog Computing Using Pareto-DQN Algorithm” – Applied analytical modeling and simulation to evaluate distributed system performance and multi-objective optimization.