Declan Mckenna
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDeclan Mckenna is a senior software engineer with over a decade of industry experience who blends applied machine learning, application security, and mobile engineering expertise. He has shipped production systems across diverse environments—from iOS apps at IBM to deep learning work at Automattic—and recently pivoted into AI safety, LLM development, and anti-disinformation research during a career break. Comfortable in distributed, multicultural teams, he has worked in the UK, Netherlands, Spain, and the Canary Islands, bringing pragmatic engineering to both startups and larger organisations. A lifelong learner and avid chess player and boulderer, Declan pairs technical rigor with curiosity, often exploring ethical and safety implications of ML systems beyond pure model performance.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Liverpool
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Github Skills (116)
uiimageview10
python10
screenshot-testing10
testing10
pocket10
webp10
deep-learning10
gpu10
snapshot-testing10
wordpress10
sdwebimage10
camera10
swift10
heif10
visionos10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Deco354/SwiftDec
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
A collection of micro-blogs about Swift
Contributions:20 commits, 45 PRs, 68 pushes in 5 months
swift
Deco354/WordPress-iOS
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
WordPress for iOS - Official repository
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 month
wordpressswiftios
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