Cian Gallagher
Staff Software Engineer at Zendesk
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolCian Gallagher is a Staff Software Engineer based in Dublin with 11 years of experience building reliable, real-time data systems and web platforms. He progressed at Zendesk from Senior Software Engineer—working on Apache Flink and Kafka pipelines—to a staff role, reflecting strong expertise in streaming architectures and production-scale engineering. His background spans site reliability, full-stack development, and freelance projects including native mobile, desktop apps and Unity games, giving him a rare cross-discipline perspective. Comfortable moving between infrastructure and application code, he combines operational rigor with pragmatic design for systems that must run continuously at scale. Outside of day-to-day engineering he maintains a personal portfolio and site, signaling an attention to craft and a habit of documenting work.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Honors Level 8, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Honors Level 8 at Griffith College DublinLeaving Certificate, Mathematics and Computer Science, Leaving Certificate, Mathematics and Computer Science at Pobailscoil Neasain
French
Github Skills (162)
dependabot10
mvc10
ruby10
operator10
kubernetes-operator10
github-app10
github-api10
html10
kubernetes10
spark10
rails10
merge10
sorting10
filesystem10
google-cloud-dataproc10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Cian911/gomerge-action
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 25 pushes in 12 days
Cian911/gomerge-test
Oct 2021 - Feb 2024
Test repository for gomerge tool.
Contributions:17 reviews, 86 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 4 months
golangtestingtest-repository
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