David Mcilwee
Head Of Engineering at Thrive Global
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Mcilwee is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling platforms across gaming, finance, and consumer wellbeing. Currently Head of Engineering at Thrive Global, he has a track record of unifying infrastructure, backend, frontend and UX teams to deliver robust, developer-friendly platforms that accelerate product delivery and operational efficiency. He has led LiveOps and deployment platforms at Demonware for Activision, driven distributed Agile teams at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and built cloud provisioning systems early in his career, combining hands-on engineering with strong people management. A regular speaker at open source conferences in Ireland, he pairs technical curiosity with a focus on enabling others—often retaining platform ownership while empowering teams to build, test and deploy autonomously.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Robotic Engineering Electronics Computers Maths Control, Robotic Engineering Electronics Computers Maths Control at University of Limerick
English, French
Github Skills (1)
typescript1
Github contributions (5)
dave-m/domaincheck
Oct 2012 - Feb 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 1 year 4 months
dave-m/srs
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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