Kevin Coghlan
Sr Software Development Engineer at Workday
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Coghlan is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in scalable, cloud-native infrastructure using Scala and Java, and has been shaping Workday’s elastic grid since 2016. He combines a strong academic foundation (MSc and BSc with first-class honours) with a pragmatic focus on clean code and software craftsmanship honed at Ericsson and Workday. Comfortable in distributed systems and actor-model tooling like Akka, he also explores new languages such as Kotlin in his personal projects, reflecting a continual-learning mindset. Colleagues note his ability to translate complex system requirements into maintainable, reliable code, and he brings both hands-on implementation experience and long-term product thinking to platform engineering challenges.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Software Engineering, 1st Class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Software Engineering, 1st Class Honours at Maynooth University
English
Github Skills (46)
game-engine10
scalafx10
javafx10
user-interface10
cross-platform10
imgui10
graphical-user-interface10
api10
game-development10
cpp10
lua-binding9
jvm9
hierarchical9
java9
gcc9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kevincoghlan/scalasteroids
Apr 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:269 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
kevincoghlan/distant-multiplayer-start
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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