Gordon Syme
Senior Staff Software Engineer at CircleCI
Ireland
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Top SchoolGordon Syme is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years of production experience, currently driving platform and infrastructure work at CircleCI from Ireland. His career spans high-scale environments at Amazon and a mix of startup and consultancy roles, reflecting deep expertise in building reliable, deployable systems and shipping long-lived engineering projects. A first-class Trinity College Dublin graduate, he brings both hands-on coding and architectural leadership—often at the intersection of CI/CD, automation and operational resilience. Notably, he has sustained a decade-long tenure at CircleCI, suggesting a strong focus on developer workflows and platform evolution rather than short-term product pivots.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Mod) 1st class, BA (Mod) 1st class at Trinity College Dublin
Github Skills (114)
testing10
circleci10
runner10
in-progress10
circleci-workflows10
api-blueprint10
redoc10
documentation10
spying10
nextjs10
api-documentation10
jekyll10
java-api10
frontend10
react10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gordonsyme/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
circleci/congomongo
Sep 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:10 PRs, 28 pushes, 20 branches in 4 years 2 months
apimongomongo-dbjava-apiodm
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