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 (20)
windows10
linux10
js10
nodejs10
javascript9
tabline9
macos9
vim-airline8
statusline8
vim-plugin8
vim7
frontend6
libp2p3
udp3
http2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
trootski/TrootskiEnvConf
Jan 2015 - Jun 2026
Vim, bash and miscellaneous conf files
Contributions:3 PRs, 225 pushes, 2 branches in 11 years 6 months
miscellaneousvimconfbashdotfiles
trootski/bond
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Skeleton project to test services and front ends
Contributions:108 commits, 86 PRs, 180 pushes in 4 years 10 months
frontend
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