Ciarán Mccann
Head Of Engineering at Health Innovation Labs
Leinster, Ireland
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Top SchoolCiarán Mccann is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput backend systems, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Health Innovation Labs. He spent over a decade at Swrve growing from engineer to head of backend, architecting platforms that processed 30 billion daily events and cutting AWS costs by $1.2M through pragmatic optimizations. A hands-on principal at MessageGears, he led technical due diligence during acquisition, drove cultural integration, and shifted teams toward predictable delivery—efforts that earned a company-wide leadership award. Comfortable across languages and infra (Java, Python, Presto, AWS), he pairs deep systems expertise with product-focused delivery and a knack for rapid MVPs, exemplified by a skunkworks feature that generated $300K+ ARR. He also contributes to open-source front-end tooling, improving the Phaser.js example viewer’s resilience and UX—an indicator of his cross-stack curiosity and practical problem-solving.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computer Games Development, 3D Graphics, Physics, C++, C#, Network Programming, AI, Software Engineering, 1.1, Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computer Games Development, 3D Graphics, Physics, C++, C#, Network Programming, AI, Software Engineering, 1.1 at Institute of Technology, Carlow
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Github Skills (5)
phaser10
javascript10
canvas10
web-development9
html9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
phaserjs/phaser-ce-examples
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contains hundreds of source code examples and related media for the Phaser HTML5 Game Framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ciarán primarily focused on enhancing the user experience within the Phaser.js example viewer. They implemented a dynamic version selection dropdown, allowing users to switch between different Phaser.js versions. Additionally, the user addressed failure cases, ensuring the examples still function correctly when the requested Phaser.js version fails to load from a remote source, by defaulting to a local version. These changes primarily involved JavaScript and HTML modifications to the viewer application.
html5-gamephysicsparticleswebglcanvas
CiaranMcCann/NodeProject
Dec 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:42 commits in 23 days
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