Summary
Kae Verens is a pragmatic CTO with 13 years of experience architecting and hands-on building scalable web and field-service systems, currently leading technology at FieldMotion from Monaghan, Ireland. He combines deep LAMP-era roots with modern container-based deployments (Docker), distributed databases (MySQL & TiDB), and mobile app stacks, often diving back into PHP and JavaScript to solve tricky production issues. Kae thrives on problems others have abandoned—syncing online/offline device state, multi-agent route optimisation, and bespoke CRM/workflow/reporting platforms—bringing persistence and pattern recognition from disparate projects to bear. He manages a small engineering team while driving architecture evolution and introducing novel technologies, balancing strategy with regular “elbow-deep” coding. His background writing two practical PHP books and years of varied web tooling work make him unusually effective at translating messy real-world requirements into reliable, scalable systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Advanced Software Engineering, A- (3.64 GPA), Master of Science - MSc, Advanced Software Engineering, A- (3.64 GPA) at University College Dublin