Conal Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolConal Smith is a Senior Software Engineer based in Dublin with 10 years of experience building resilient, distributed systems and backend services. A First Class MEng Computer Science graduate from Queen’s University Belfast, he has shipped production microservices for Big Data at HPE and advanced blockchain infrastructure at R3 before moving into a senior role at Bloomberg. He combines deep Java and distributed-systems expertise (Docker, Mesos, Kafka, RabbitMQ) with practical experience in Corda and email-parsing contributions to the well-known mailgun/talon repo, where he improved thread-splitting logic and test coverage. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and staff-level technical leadership, he has a track record of improving reliability and testability in complex systems. Colleagues know him for pragmatic design choices and for bringing teaching experience into mentorship and code-quality advocacy.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at Queen's University BelfastSt. Patrick's Grammar School
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Github Skills (13)
regular-expression10
email-parsing10
python10
testing9
rel9
re29
html6
css6
php6
dynamic6
sql6
dropdown-menu6
database6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mailgun/talon
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Conal primarily contributed to the `talon` project's functionality for email parsing. Their work involved adding and refining the `split_emails` function, which identifies and marks lines in an email thread. The user also implemented tests to validate the behavior of the split email feature. Further contributions included code improvements and updates related to handling header blocks and quoting styles within email content.
conalsmith49/caf-common
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:45 pushes in 21 days
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