J B
Automation Engineer
Tralee, Ireland
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Top SchoolJ B is an experienced automation and AI engineer with 17 years of software development and team leadership across startups and enterprise environments, currently based in Tralee, Ireland. He has a track record of modernizing legacy systems—migrating VB/Windows apps to Python web services, building CI/CD pipelines, and integrating cloud and telephony APIs to deliver voiced chatbots and deployment tooling. Comfortable bridging cultures and stakeholders, he has served as Principal Engineer aligning Indian developers with American product owners and led cross-functional teams to ISO and safety-critical certifications. His practical mastery spans Python, Bash, FastAPI, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible and testing discipline, with a sustained passion for AI, parsing and readable code. Notably, he experiments with "AI-ing the shell" and refactors natural-language prompts into production search front-ends, blending curiosity-driven tinkering with measurable operational gains. He pairs engineering rigor with a background in teaching and accessibility, having taught coding to differently-abled users early in his career.
17 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Application Development, Computer Software Engineering, Application Development, Computer Software Engineering at Allied Computer TrainingBachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.), Medicine, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.), Medicine at University College DublinBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Dublin City UniversityBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Munster Technological University
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Github Skills (194)
bpython10
slack-bot10
python10
windows10
bash10
ipython10
websocket10
pdb10
aiohttp-client10
cop10
aiohttp10
unix10
linux10
urwid10
task-scheduler10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jalanb/jpm
Feb 2014 - Jan 2021
Just Play Music
Contributions:56 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 7 years
music-playmusicmusic-player
jalanb/cde
Oct 2012 - Jan 2023
cde extends cd, historically
Contributions:390 commits, 49 PRs, 143 pushes in 10 years 4 months
cdeaws
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