Donal O'brien
DevOps Engineer - Engineering Productivity at SoundCloud
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolDonal O'Brien is a DevOps and full-stack engineer with 12 years' experience focused on developer productivity and reliable cloud-native delivery, currently improving CI/CD, service mesh, and infrastructure at SoundCloud. He blends hands-on iOS and backend experience—Scala, Ruby, Go, Swift—with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Chef), container orchestration, and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana) to streamline developer workflows and migrations. At SoundCloud he led a GoCD→GitHub Actions migration, helped modularize monoliths into microservices packaged as Debian/Docker artifacts, and has run on-call rotations and threat modeling. Trained in sonic arts and music technology (MA, PhD-level work), he brings a musician’s attention to systems design and a longtime interest in electronic music that informs his pragmatic, UX-aware approach to tooling.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Music Technology, Media Production and Management, Distinction / Merit profile, BA, Music Technology, Media Production and Management, Distinction / Merit profile at Ballyfermot College of Further EducationMA, Sonic Arts, Pass with distinction, MA, Sonic Arts, Pass with distinction at Queen's University Belfast
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Github Skills (118)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
soundcloud/api
Aug 2021 - Feb 2024
A public repo for our Developer Community to engage about bugs and feature requests on our Public API
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
apiengagepublic-repopublic-apideveloper-community
remover/NetworkStubbingBlog
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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