Brendan Molloy
CEO And Founder at Necessary Innovations
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolBrendan Molloy is a seasoned software leader and founder with 15 years of experience building products and tech teams across startups and consultancies, currently serving as CEO and Founder of Necessary Innovations in Gothenburg. He has held senior technical and leadership roles including CTO at Meela and Localift and multiple director and lead developer positions at The Techno Creatives, combining hands-on engineering with strategic product delivery. His background spans systems from membership databases and voting systems to search engines and niche computational linguistics tooling, reflecting a knack for solving unusual technical problems. Brendan pairs a BSc in Information Technology (with Distinction) with ongoing postgraduate study in Language Technology, signaling a strong interest in bridging language research and software. Colleagues describe him as an entrepreneurial technologist who moves fluidly between architecture, team leadership, and hands-on implementation. Based in Sweden, he brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach to building reliable, user-focused systems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, with Distinction, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, with Distinction at University of Technology SydneyMaster in Language Technology, Master in Language Technology at University of Gothenburg
English, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
keystonejs10
async-await10
compression10
operating-system10
spellchecker10
observer10
keyboard-layout10
localization10
html10
cucumber10
selector10
nodejs10
hfst10
ime10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
technocreatives/core2
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
The bare essentials of std::io for use in no_std. Alloc support is optional.
Contributions:31 commits, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 3 months
allocrusttraitsconst-genericsno-std
bbqsrc/fastvlq
Oct 2020 - Aug 2021
A fast variant of Variable-Length Quantity with a focus on speed and no_std support.
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 27 pushes in 10 months
variable-lengthvlqvarintu64rust
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