Summary
Chris Rooney is a senior software researcher and engineering lead with 15 years’ experience combining academic rigour and product delivery across intelligent automation, interactive data visualisation, and immersive 3D applications. Currently heading Intelligent Automation as Teal Lead at Genetec, he brings a strong front-end pedigree (D3, Meteor, React) alongside Java, SQL and CI expertise honed during a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Leeds. He led UI coordination and pipeline integration on the VALCRI research project at Middlesex University and co-founded a startup building Unity-based mobile 3D apps, showing a practical knack for turning research prototypes into deployed software. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he often works at the intersection of UX, quantitative analysis and scalable development to deliver interpretable, production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Leeds