Declan Shanaghy
Sr. Principal Software Engineer Cribl.cloud Architect
Benicia, California, United States
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Top SchoolDeclan Shanaghy is a Sr. Principal Software Engineer and cloud architect with over 15 years of production experience and more than two decades of hands-on software and systems expertise. He currently shapes Cribl.cloud architecture after leading cloud and platform initiatives at Splunk, consistently delivering complex products on time and on budget. A pragmatic technical leader, he blends deep systems, mobile, and C++/JNI experience with modern cloud patterns to mentor teams and accelerate delivery. His open-source contributions to the popular moto library demonstrate a practical focus on testability and AWS-mocking improvements that strengthen CI for distributed systems. Known for reducing time-to-resolution and improving reliability in prior roles, he brings a track record of measurable operational impact alongside a collaborative, mentor-first leadership style. Based in Benicia, CA, he combines enterprise-scale architecture chops with a willingness to roll up his sleeves on backend bug fixes and test engineering.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor of Computer Engineering Software Engineering at University of Limerick
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Github Skills (23)
bitmap10
boto10
python10
testing10
overlay10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
s3-bucket10
ssm9
android9
ant6
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
getmoto/moto
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Declan primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the `moto` library, which mocks AWS infrastructure for testing. Their contributions include resolving issues related to CloudFormation, S3 path detection, and stack deletion. They also added support for features like S3 parsing and SSM parameter filtering and implemented various tests, enhancing the library's functionality and test coverage.
ec2bototestinginfrastructureaws-infrastructure
Polarishq/skel
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:115 PRs, 145 pushes, 118 branches in 2 months
skeletonphppolarisdockerlaravel
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