David Mcelligott
Head Of Engineering
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Mcelligott is an engineering leader and serial founder with 12 years of experience building secure, scalable web products and leading cross-functional teams from Berlin. Currently Head of Engineering at Bees & Bears, he combines hands-on technical delivery—rewriting core scanning orchestration and developing client-facing metrics engines—with strategic leadership in growing engineering organisations and introducing agile practices. He has a track record of shipping security and vulnerability scanning products, scaling teams and processes at edgescan, and founding startups in fintech and HR tech where he navigated complex integrations with legacy systems. David pairs a BSc in Computer Science with a postgraduate in Innovation Management, bringing both technical depth and product-focused innovation to complex regulatory and operational challenges. Colleagues describe him as a builder who mentors teams, codifies career progression frameworks, and turns proof-of-concepts into production-grade systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University College DublinPostgraduate Degree, Innovation Management, Postgraduate Degree, Innovation Management at University of Limerick
English, German, Irish
Stackoverflow
51reputation
3kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (96)
resilience4j10
spring-cloud9
editor9
spring-boot-admin9
hystrix9
micrometer9
opentelemetry9
docker-image9
zipkin9
visual-studio-code9
ribbon9
docker9
jenkins-pipeline9
electron9
typescript9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
damc-dev/distributed-command-runner
Sep 2016 - Jan 2026
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 5 months
damc-dev/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:104 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 5 months
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