Summary
David Power is an engineering manager with 14 years of hands-on software and leadership experience, currently based in Berlin and leading teams at Personio. He combines a servant-leader, coaching approach with deep expertise in availability, SRE practices, and quality engineering to build resilient microservices and billing platforms. His background spans startups and scale-ups including Trade Republic, N26 and WP Engine, where he led cross‑border teams and championed SLO/SLI-driven testing from unit to end‑to‑end. David’s technical roots in web application development and automation (LAMP, Elasticsearch, APIs) inform a pragmatic management style that prioritizes engineer growth and long-lived services. An MSc in Music Technology hints at a creative, systems-oriented mindset that he brings to complex reliability and integration challenges.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc in Information Technology Support, BSc in Information Technology Support at Munster Technological University
BSc Hons in Information Technology, BSc Hons in Information Technology at Waterford Institute of Technology
MSc in Music Technology Music Technology, MSc in Music Technology Music Technology at University of Limerick
English