Brian Hannaway
Full Stack Java Tech Lead (Contract) at Canada Life
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Hannaway is a Full Stack Java Tech Lead with over a decade of hands-on experience building and architecting Java and cloud-based systems, currently leading full stack delivery at Canada Life. He progressed from trainee to technical architect across long tenures at Kainos and has repeatedly taken on contract roles where rapid onboarding and practical design trade-offs mattered. Comfortable across the JVM stack and cloud platforms, he pairs deep implementation experience with an emphasis on delivery and maintainable architecture. Based in Ireland with an engineering degree from Queen’s University Belfast, he brings institutional knowledge of enterprise finance and payments domains gained through roles at CyberSource and Canada Life. A pragmatic leader, he’s known for turning complex legacy landscapes into sustainable, testable systems while mentoring teams through incremental modernization.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science at Queens University Belfast
Github Skills (23)
rds-mysql10
amazon10
rds9
java9
amazon-web-services9
spring-boot9
aws-s39
spring8
aws8
storage8
spring-boot-admin8
admin7
mysql7
administration7
angular7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
briansjavablog/spring-webservices-tutorial
Jan 2013 - Nov 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 10 months
briansjavablog/spring-boot-aws
Mar 2016 - Oct 2019
Spring Boot, Angular & Amazon Web Services (MySQL RDS & S3 Storage)
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 6 months
spring-bootrdsmysqlamazonweb-services
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