Ceola Flannery is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and leading software teams across startups and enterprise product companies in Australia. She combines hands-on technical background in distributed systems and cloud with a people-first leadership style, having led engineering organisations at Till Payments, Whispir and now SEEK. Known for cultivating trust, psychological safety and continuous learning, she prioritises growing leaders, pragmatic tradeoff analysis, and simplifying complexity to deliver customer-focused outcomes. Ceola is comfortable balancing autonomy with alignment and champions data-driven decisions, continuous delivery and automation to remove mundane work. Outside of work she organises the DDD Melbourne community, reflecting a commitment to developer growth and industry collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology and Communications, Psychology and Communications at University of Ottawa
Information Technology, Information Technology at National University of Ireland, Galway
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