Summary
Barry O'mahony is a Principal Application Architect with over two decades of cross-domain experience and 12 years in hands-on software roles, currently leading platform strategy at Charter Communications. He combines pragmatic architectural judgment with a bias for measurable outcomes—migrating large systems to cloud-native architectures, streamlining deployments, and driving multi-team regionalization and disaster recovery efforts. Barry has a strong track record of accelerating delivery through process change (two-week sprints, DevOps migrations) and technical leadership across media, trading, and healthcare products. He avoids "Not Invented Here" thinking, favoring evaluated third-party tools when they reduce risk and accelerate value, and often translates complex requirements into clear, multi-level architecture plans for stakeholders. Known for mentoring engineering teams and improving code-review engagement, he also initiated internal conferences and training programs to raise organizational capability. Based in Colorado Springs, he pairs deep systems experience with a habit of anticipating project risks early to keep large initiatives both innovative and sustainable.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
None, Experimental Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, None, Experimental Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science at Maynooth University