Darren Lyons
VP Of Engineering at CitySwift
Galway, Ireland
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Top SchoolDarren Lyons is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years’ experience building and scaling FinTech and SaaS engineering organisations, currently serving as VP of Engineering after leading multiple distributed teams at Deputy. He blends hands-on technical contribution with people-first leadership—re-architecting systems to cut integration delivery from two months to a single sprint while coaching teams through rapid growth from 20 to 96 engineers. Skilled across Go, Java, AWS, observability and CI/CD, Darren focuses on performance, scalability and efficient delivery pipelines that turn prioritized ideas into validated production outcomes. He has a track record of improving manager effectiveness and developer experience, and prefers remote/hybrid models that support strong team culture. Based in Galway and returning from Sydney, he’s driven by building products that have a positive real-world impact and still finds time for hiking, family and music.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Advanced Software Engineering, Expecting first class honours degree., Master of Science (MSc), Advanced Software Engineering, Expecting first class honours degree. at University College DublinBachelor of Engineering, Electronic and Computer Engineering, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic and Computer Engineering, First Class Honours at National University of Ireland, Galway
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Github Skills (18)
firebase8
google8
django7
mongodb7
flutter7
dart6
nodejs6
opencv6
python6
pyside6
flutter-apps6
ios-application3
git-clone2
validating2
ios1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
1hour1day/onehouraday
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Community that expose social projects and people can spend one hour to help a social cause
Contributions:22 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
social-causedjangocauseexposenodejs
darrenjl/GalwayTideTimes
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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