John O'gara
Co-Founder CTO at Singulate
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJohn O'gara is a seasoned technologist and Co-Founder CTO based in Lisbon with 13 years of experience building high-performing teams and delivering pragmatic platform architectures. He combines deep hands-on expertise across monolithic and microservice stacks with a proven track record in scaling products at companies from startups to scale-ups, including leadership roles at Hopin, StreamYard and Grubhub. Comfortable across the full stack, he focuses on pragmatic implementation and delivery rather than purely theoretical designs, repeatedly turning ambitious roadmaps into shipped systems. As a repeat founder and former Head of Platform, he blends product-minded engineering with operational ownership, often stepping into both strategic and executional trenches. His background in advanced software engineering (MSc) and early work migrating search systems gives him particular strength in architecting reliable, data-driven services.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Advanced Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Advanced Software Engineering at University College DublinBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Systems at University of Limerick
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Github Skills (106)
perplexity10
protocol-buffers10
ai10
protobuf10
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rpc10
xai10
marshalling9
chatgpt9
redlock9
geolocation9
ruby9
business-logic9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jkogara/dotfiles
Jun 2013 - Jun 2022
Contributions:98 commits, 106 pushes, 6 branches in 9 years 1 month
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