Summary
Deirdre Cleary is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience building secure, production-grade systems across startups and finance. She was a founding engineer at Evervault, working across a Rust encryption engine, Node APIs, SDKs and AWS Nitro Enclaves, and has prior experience delivering low-latency trading software at Susquehanna. Currently at HubSpot and advising a childcare tech startup, she combines deep full-stack systems work with product-minded architecture and operational ownership. She is committed to developer experience and compliance—having rearchitected multi-language functions, introduced PCI-compliant modes, and built a usage-based billing system. An advocate for diversity in STEM, she volunteers widely teaching coding and mentoring interns, and outside engineering she channels creativity and community as a dance-fitness instructor and Bhangra performer. Pragmatic, customer-focused, and fluent in Rust, Node, C# and cloud infrastructure, she thrives on turning complex security and performance constraints into reliable, user-facing products.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Leaving Certificate Irish English Maths German Chemistry Music History, Leaving Certificate Irish English Maths German Chemistry Music History at Loreto Secondary School Balbriggan
BSc Computer Science and Software Engineering, BSc Computer Science and Software Engineering at Maynooth University
English, Irish