Daniel Mcmahon
Senior Software Developer at Storyful
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Mcmahon is a Senior Software Developer based in Dublin with nine years of experience building and operating full-stack, cloud-native systems across startups and large tech companies. He blends a strong Scala/JavaScript backend and React frontend skill set with hands-on Kubernetes/Docker deployment and observability (ZMON, Grafana) experience, shipping services and datastores on AWS. Daniel has led engineering efforts integrating IoT, mobile, and backend platforms—from BLE beacon hardware to Kotlin apps and Rails APIs—while establishing testing, monitoring and team processes. His background as a qualified secondary-school teacher and music graduate gives him a practical edge in mentorship, clear communication and product-focused pedagogy. Notably, he has worked on ML pipeline tooling (Airflow, Spark) and internal API gateway operations at scale, pairing data engineering insight with operational reliability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Diploma Computer Science, Higher Diploma Computer Science at University College DublinProfessional Diploma in Education Secondary Education and Teaching, Professional Diploma in Education Secondary Education and Teaching at Maynooth UniversityAshbourne Community School
English, German
Github Skills (35)
discord-bot8
discord8
discord-js8
k3d6
js6
k8s6
react6
heroku6
nodejs6
styled-components6
circleci6
expressjs6
kubelet5
api5
testing5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dan-mcm/cnc-db
Jan 2021 - Sep 2023
🗃️ DB Crawling Cronjob for Community CNC Ladder
Contributions:1 PR, 43 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
node
dan-mcm/inspiration-api
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
☀️ API built with Scala & Play Framework. Uses Postgres & Slick.
Contributions:18 commits, 14 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apisqlplay-frameworkscalapostgres
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