Summary
Henry Mckillen is an Application Security Developer and seasoned frontend engineer with over 17 years in web development and 11 years of focused experience delivering accessible, production-grade UIs across industries from aviation to healthcare. He blends deep HTML/CSS/ES6 expertise and modern frameworks (Angular, Vue) with practical security stewardship—triaging SAST/DAST findings, shaping vulnerability SLAs, and hardening Node.js and web apps. As a former UI architect and team lead at Aer Lingus, he has led large teams, driven design system work, and overseen major site rewrites while keeping UX and accessibility (WAI-AA) front and center. Comfortable across the full frontend lifecycle, he pairs hands-on coding with policy and process improvements, and has a pragmatic knack for turning legacy frontends into maintainable, standardized codebases. Based in Leinster, Ireland, he brings both long-term freelance breadth and enterprise-level delivery experience to bridge engineering, product and security goals.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Grad. Dip. (Hons) Entrepreneurship Management, Grad. Dip. (Hons) Entrepreneurship Management at University of Limerick