Hugh Mooney
Platform Engineering, Security And Governance Lead
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolHugh Mooney is a seasoned platform engineering and security leader with 11+ years building and operating cloud-native, containerized, and traditional infrastructure across enterprises in finance, healthcare, and technology. He co-founded Hestio and led the design of worX, an IaC governance SaaS, and now drives platform services, cybersecurity and compliance (ISO-27001/SOC-2) at Scorebuddy while mentoring teams and enabling partner delivery. His hands-on background spans Terraform/Ansible automation, GitOps, event-driven microservices, and multi-region AWS at scale, with a track record of modernising legacy stacks into auditable, secure platforms. Known for pragmatic delivery—captured in his GitHub motto “There can be only Done.”—he blends operational rigor with product-led thinking to move projects from concept to reliably running production. Based in Ireland, he pairs deep technical craft with cross-functional leadership to solve complex, compliance-sensitive infrastructure challenges.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Ulster University
Github Skills (58)
python10
graph10
terraform10
active-directory10
aws10
ansible10
devops10
ssh10
terraform-cloud9
world-of-warcraft9
amazon-linux9
hashicorp9
hcl9
declarative9
aws-tools9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hest-io/awsh
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
AWS Shell: Load and use your AWS identities with all your favorite AWS tools
Contributions:102 commits, 52 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
aws-cliaws-cli-utilitiesdockeraws-toolsidentities
kxseven/axe
Oct 2016 - Jun 2019
The AWS tools you didn't know you needed
Contributions:6 releases, 178 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 8 months
aws-toolsaws
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