Summary
Damien O'Reilly is a Principal Software Engineer at Zalando with 15+ years of delivering scalable backend systems in online retail and telecom. He specializes in JVM languages (Java, Scala) and is actively exploring functional programming with Haskell and Kotlin. His work spans back-end microservices, cloud-native deployments on AWS and Kubernetes, and event streaming with Kafka. Damien also brings front-end exposure (JavaScript, Elm) and strong scripting skills (Python, shell) to automate and improve tooling. Based in Dublin, Ireland, he holds a First Class Honours in Computer Science from Athlone Institute of Technology and has a track record of leadership across teams at Ericsson, LeasePlan Information Services, and Zalando.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours at Athlone Institute of Technology