Summary
Conor Hennessy is a tech lead with 13 years of formal industry experience and 28 years of coding, blending theoretical physics and high-performance computing foundations with hands-on delivery across startups and global enterprises. He has led engineering and data science teams at N26, WATTx and SoundCloud, building scalable backend, ops and ML systems for domains from banking and ads to genomics and gaming. Comfortable in C/C++, Java, Python, Go and more, he designs novel algorithms and resilient large-scale infrastructure that have run in production across multiple countries and company sizes. His background in genomics research and HPC gives him a rare ability to translate complex scientific requirements into production-grade software. Pragmatic, curious and empirically minded, he pairs rigorous engineering with empathy and a taste for solving oddball production mysteries.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc High Performance Computing, MSc High Performance Computing at Trinity College Dublin