Cian Mcelhinney
Team Lead Staff Software Engineer at MessageGears
Ireland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolCian Mcelhinney is a Team Lead and Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and data systems from Ireland. He has led product teams at MessageGears and Swrve, delivering full‑stack features using AWS, Ruby on Rails, Java and React while also owning DevOps, reliability and security improvements. As a former co‑founder of a data integration startup, he brings entrepreneurial instincts for product design and data engineering alongside hands‑on systems development. His background in Computer Engineering (Trinity College Dublin) and early work on analytics tooling show a consistent focus on user behaviour analysis and automation. Outside engineering he’s coached trampoline athletes, a detail that hints at his coaching style and patience when mentoring teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Belvedere College S.J.Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at Trinity College DublinExperimental Physics, Experimental Physics at CTYI (Centre for Talented Youth, Ireland) - DCU
Irish, French
Github Skills (68)
spotify-api10
ruby-wrapper10
charts9
api9
music9
relay9
spotify9
password-strength9
sql8
pokemongo8
ruby8
graphql8
dos8
discord-bot8
script8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cianmce/profile_password_checkers
Jun 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:13 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
cianmce/cianmce.github.io
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 PRs, 64 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 4 months
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