Connel Mcgovern
Senior DevOps Engineer at Fiserv
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolConnel Mcgovern is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Dublin with four years of focused experience automating CI/CD, release orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code for enterprise software. At R3 he streamlined build and release processes for the Corda blockchain—contributing to core Kotlin tooling and release branch management—while building self-service developer tooling and Terraform modules. He has hands-on experience managing Jenkins, GitHub, Gradle Enterprise and JFrog Artifactory, and integrating security tooling like Snyk to enforce automated vulnerability gating. Prior roles at FINEOS saw him bridge full-stack Java development with AWS IaC and custom Gradle automation, giving him a practical appreciation for both application code and platform reliability. Known for turning operational complexity into repeatable, observable pipelines, he also authors low-level design docs and custom release software that publishes artifacts to Maven Central and Docker Hub.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Applications Computer Programming Specific Applications, Computer Applications Computer Programming Specific Applications at Dublin City UniversityLeaving Certificate General Studies, Leaving Certificate General Studies at Malahide Community School
Github Skills (9)
kotlin10
distributed-ledger10
blockchain10
corda10
distributed-ledger-technology10
serialization9
jackson9
data-serialization9
distributed-systems8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
corda/corda
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Corda is an open source blockchain project, designed for business from the start. Only Corda allows you to build interoperable blockchain networks that transact in strict privacy. Corda's smart contract technology allows businesses to transact directly, with value.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 58 commits, 54 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Connel contributed to the Corda blockchain project by merging release branches and modifying core and client-side Kotlin code. These changes involved adjustments to Jackson serialization, and updates to key stores. The code modifications focused on adapting serialization configurations within the Jackson library, and adjusting keytool scripts. These changes indicate the user was involved in maintaining and improving the framework's internal workings.
interoperabledltsmart-contractprivacytransact
corda/corda-shell
Nov 2022 - Dec 2024
A shell to execute commands on Corda nodes via a terminal. As of Corda 4.9, the shell lives in its own repository. For older versions of the shell, please see the main Corda codebase - https://github.com/corda/corda. Please raise any issues over on that main corda repository. Issue on this repository are disabled.
Contributions:9 reviews, 9 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
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