Ciaran Kearney
Lead Data Engineer
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCiaran Kearney is a Lead Data Engineer based in Belfast with 11 years of software experience and over six years focused on data and distributed systems using Scala, Java, Spark, Hadoop and Akka. He currently leads data engineering at BT and previously delivered PCI-DSS compliant ETL, streaming, and Hadoop self-service platforms at Kainos for major UK financial and insurance clients. Comfortable across cloud (ECS/EC2, Lambda, Kafka), search (Elasticsearch), and ML tooling, he has built real-time transaction pipelines and PoCs that combined ML (RandomForest, KNN, HMM) with geospatial visualisations. Security-vetted (SC clearance and AccessNI) and trained to a first-class Computing Science degree, he pairs hands-on engineering with an eye for compliance and operational reliability. His GitHub bio hints at dry developer humour, reflecting a pragmatic, no-nonsense approach to complex system design.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours, Computing Science, 1st Class (81% Average), Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours, Computing Science, 1st Class (81% Average) at University of Ulster
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Github Skills (23)
maven-plugin10
sbt10
java10
scala10
maven10
scalafmt10
sbt-plugin10
oozie7
casting6
splunk6
logging5
logger5
solr4
spark3
hdfs3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SimonJPegg/spark-solr
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
Example of ingesting solr documents from HDFS via spark
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
hdfssolrspark
SimonJPegg/kafka-docker-sbt
Sep 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
dockerscalasbtkafkadocker-kafka
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