Dara Carolan
Senior Staff Engineer at Viasat
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDara Carolan is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Dublin with 11 years of engineering experience and a prior decade in design, bringing a rare blend of UX sensibility and frontend engineering rigor. She specializes in React, Next.js and TypeScript, leading platform work that includes server-side rendering, shared component libraries and a Storybook-driven design system. At Viasat she builds scalable frontend infrastructure and CI/CD tailored for frontend teams, and previously led the Daft platform’s architectural vision and testing strategy. A qualified Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), Dara mentors engineers and shapes hiring and process improvements in addition to shipping code. Her background in responsive typography and long history of designer-developer roles gives her a strong instinct for design handoff and developer-friendly UI systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Diploma in Science in Web Technologies Computer Science / Web Development, Postgraduate Diploma in Science in Web Technologies Computer Science / Web Development at National College of IrelandMaster of Arts (MA) Professional Design Practice, Master of Arts (MA) Professional Design Practice at DIT Mountjoy Square
English
Github Skills (164)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
styled-components10
ember10
isolation10
javascript10
html10
angular10
storybook-addon10
typescript10
vue10
svelte10
documentation10
react-native10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
daraclare/wtdara
Oct 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:11 PRs, 46 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 10 months
daraclare/daraclare
Jul 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
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