David Ahern
Principal Software Engineer at Dell Technologies
Munster, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Ahern is a Principal Software Engineer based in Munster, Ireland, with 11 years of experience building resilient web and automation systems for enterprise customers. He specializes in JavaScript frameworks (Angular/React) and TypeScript-driven architectures, and has led migrations of legacy apps and CI pipelines to modern stacks including Redux, Electron, Docker and Kubernetes. At Dell he architects and delivers high-pressure, user-focused products while championing test automation—his open-source contributions to the well-known protractor E2E framework show practical QA engineering chops. His background spans telecom tooling, backend services in Java/C++, and full-stack web work, complemented by an MSc in Software Architecture. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic trade-offs between UX, security and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Munster Technological University
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
protractor10
angular10
testing10
webdriver9
selenium9
nodes9
selenium-ide9
nodejs9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
angular/protractor
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
E2E test framework for Angular apps
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 16 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the testing framework of the protractor repository. Their work involved developing and adding new end-to-end tests for a console plugin, creating configuration files, and implementing test cases to validate the plugin's functionality, including error and warning message handling. The contributions involved modifying existing test files and creating new spec files to cover different scenarios within the console plugin. The user also refactored some existing code to adapt to specific results.
end-to-endtestingjavascripttest-frameworke2e-test
el-davo/blog-ui-new
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:68 PRs, 92 pushes, 35 branches in 1 year 7 months
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