Summary
Conor Thompson is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, large-scale infrastructure and monitoring systems across cloud and payments domains. Currently at AWS after a multi-year tenure at Microsoft, he has designed synthetic monitoring and diagnostic tooling for Azure SQL spanning public and sovereign regions, and led SRE practices at Mastercard to improve availability and performance. Proficient in a wide range of languages (Python, Java, C#, C++, Scala, Perl, Ruby, PHP) he pairs systems-level thinking with hands-on coding across microservices, probing libraries, and observability platforms. An avid reader of systems and security books and a learner of Polish, he brings curiosity and cross-disciplinary depth to complex production problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Honours (B.Sc.H) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Honours (B.Sc.H) Computer Science at National College of Ireland
Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at Scoil Dara, Kilcock
Scottish Gaelic, French, English