John Byrne
Staff Software Engineer at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolJohn Byrne is a Staff Software Engineer based in Dublin with over 15 years in software design, delivery and technical leadership across education technology and digital advertising. He currently leads digital content and platform engineering at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, pairing product-focused architecture with close collaboration across learning design and production teams. Previously as CTO of a digital agency he built and scaled cross-disciplinary teams, owned full development lifecycles and ran R&D and live infrastructure—skills that make him equally comfortable shipping production systems and prototyping new technologies. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, strong interpersonal coaching and deep experience with content standards like SCORM/AICC, he brings a hands-on approach to turning precise business requirements into maintainable software.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Science, Bachelor of Science, Science at Dublin Institute of TechnologyLeaving Cert, Computer Science, Leaving Cert, Computer Science at Templeogue
Github Skills (31)
javascript10
windows10
linux10
js10
nodejs10
rocket9
vimscript9
tabline9
statusline9
macos9
skeleton8
vim-airline8
vim-plugin8
viml7
vim7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
trootski/TrootskiEnvConf
Jan 2015 - Nov 2024
Vim, bash and miscellaneous conf files
Contributions:3 PRs, 210 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 11 months
miscellaneousvimconfbashdotfiles
trootski/trootski.github.io
Dec 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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