Gerard Cahill
Engineering Lead Manager at Rent The Runway
Galway City, Connacht, Ireland
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Top SchoolGerard Cahill is an engineering leader with 15+ years building scalable, high-availability full-stack systems and a recent transition from Staff Engineer to leading a six-person e-commerce engineering team at Rent The Runway. He combines deep hands-on experience—from extracting microservices and platform work at Zendesk to designing multi-service Rails deployments at uSwitch—with a people-first approach focused on team growth and cross-functional delivery. Comfortable across infrastructure, backend services, and product-facing features, he excels at turning complex legacy systems into robust, maintainable platforms. Based in Galway, Ireland, he pairs practical technical stewardship with mentorship, emphasizing measurable outcomes and developer productivity. A background in social software (M.Eng.Sc) and early embedded/perl work in transport systems give him a quietly broad perspective that surfaces in pragmatic architecture decisions.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc.I.T Information Technology, BSc.I.T Information Technology at University of GalwayMaster of Engineering Science (M.Eng.Sc) Social software, Master of Engineering Science (M.Eng.Sc) Social software at DERI, National University of Ireland Galway
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Github Skills (69)
twilio-api10
ruby10
ubuntu10
background-service10
sdk10
html10
plugin-architecture10
rails10
imagemagick10
twilio10
architecture9
avro9
continuous-delivery9
linux9
api9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/twilio-sandbox
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
Simple Sinatra application for prototyping Twilio workflows
Contributions:15 commits in 1 month
gerardc/go-avro
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
golangavroapache-avroapache
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