Kevin Brannigan
Founder at K2 Cloud Engineering
Greater Dublin Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Brannigan is a seasoned founder and technology leader with over 25 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, leading DevOps transformations, and scaling engineering teams across fintech, security, and media. As founder of Helix-Pay and K2 Cloud Engineering he merges payments expertise with hands-on cloud architecture to simplify compliance and reduce transaction costs for e-commerce, gaming, and charity sectors. He has repeatedly acted as the bridge between business and engineering—shaping technical roadmaps, stabilizing legacy systems, and driving measurable ROI in global organizations. His background includes senior operational roles at MIRACL and Kneip, where he drove migrations to microservices, containerization, and automated CI/CD at scale. Based in Dublin, Kevin combines strategic leadership with day-to-day technical rigor, often stepping into interim CTO roles to deliver rapid, sustainable transformation. A practical innovator, he pairs deep infrastructure know-how with a knack for translating complex regulatory and payments challenges into elegant engineering solutions.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Engineering Leadership, Bachelor's degree Engineering Leadership at Cornell Universityapplied science Computer Science, applied science Computer Science at Dundalk Institute of Technology
English, French, Irish
Github Skills (5)
mesos1
proxy1
aws1
s3-proxy1
aws-s31
Github contributions (5)
py-man/Livestatus-Rest-Interface
Jan 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 2 years 3 months
py-man/populate-nagios-from-zookeeper
Apr 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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