Derek Lawless
Engineering Manager at Bord Gáis Energy
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolDerek Lawless is an engineering manager based in Dublin with over 25 years of experience in software architecture, engineering and leadership, and nine years in senior roles driving cloud-native and mobile platforms. He currently leads engineering at Bord Gáis Energy, having previously architected and scaled platform and API integrations on AWS and steered technical strategy as CTO of a sports-entertainment startup. Derek blends hands-on delivery (APIs, serverless, microservices, mobile) with product-focused practices—introducing UX design sprints, quality-centric engineering, and DevOps to improve releases and user experience. He has a track record of rebuilding teams, leading acquisitions’ technical due diligence, and mentoring engineers while bridging business and technical stakeholders. Trained in design thinking and distributed/mobile computing, he pairs technical depth with a strong emphasis on user-centric solutions and measurable operational improvements. An early founder and long-time practitioner, he brings entrepreneurial instincts to large enterprise transformation.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Certificate Design Thinking, Postgraduate Certificate Design Thinking at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and TechnologyBSc. Information Technology, BSc. Information Technology at TU Dublin
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Github Skills (13)
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Github contributions (5)
dereklawless/algorithms-and-data-structures-katas
Jul 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 15 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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dereklawless/dereklawless
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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