Summary
Alan Kehoe is a senior principal software engineer based in Leinster, Ireland, with 12 years of experience building scalable, customer-focused applications and systems. He has progressed through technical leadership roles at Mastercard, where he now drives architecture and delivery as a Sr. Principal Engineer, and previously contributed to high-throughput, cloud-native personalization platforms at Boxever. Alan has deep practical experience in big data and open source technologies—Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis and AWS feature prominently in his background—and a strong track record of taking features from design through testing, deployment and monitoring. Colleagues value his clear communication, mentoring mindset and readiness to jump in on tough problems. He combines hands-on engineering with a pragmatic product focus, and his career shows a steady pattern of stepping into greater ownership within large, regulated payments environments.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Dublin City University
Leaving Cert, Leaving Cert at Gorey Community School
English, Afrikaans