Summary
Dara Hayes is a senior full-stack software engineer with 11 years’ experience building backend-first, cloud-native systems for enterprise and startup environments. He has delivered AI-driven solutions and infrastructure-as-code at ServisBOT and architected high-throughput data pipelines and open banking integrations at Wayflyer, working across AWS services like ECS, Lambda and DynamoDB. Earlier roles at Red Hat and nearForm grounded him in GraphQL, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and open-source tooling—he was lead maintainer of Offix, a GraphQL data-sync client used for offline and real-time mobile scenarios. Dara combines pragmatic production engineering with a knack for automating release and CI/CD workflows, and he enjoys taking on new stacks quickly while mentoring junior engineers. Based in Waterford, Ireland, he brings startup grit and enterprise discipline to projects that require reliable, scalable backend architecture.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Computing at Waterford Institute of Technology