Kieran Marron
Principal Engineer at Stadion
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKieran Marron is a Principal Engineer based in Bristol with 14 years of experience leading teams from junior developers to VP-level engineering, known for driving delivery through process, automation and developer-focused tooling. He excels at technical leadership and mentoring, advocating autonomy so engineers own features from conception to production while raising quality via CI/CD, test automation and pragmatic architecture. At CluedIn he scaled engineering from contractors to a 15+ team, established QA and ops functions, and enabled Kubernetes-based delivery and Azure DevOps workflows that improved cross-team consistency. A hands-on backend developer, his open-source contributions to GitVersion demonstrate deep expertise in semantic versioning and robust test automation across diverse merge scenarios. He blends .NET and PowerShell mastery with a preference for practical solutions that unblock commercial opportunities and empower developers. Colleagues describe him as a communicator and public advocate who translates complex designs for global stakeholders while removing mundane friction from developer workflows.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Swansea University
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Github Skills (19)
git10
sem10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
versioning10
csharp10
test-automation10
regex9
nunit9
dns6
lucene6
aws-lambda6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
GitTools/GitVersion
Mar 2019 - May 2019
From git log to SemVer in no time
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 30 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kieran's contributions primarily involve enhancing the test suite for the GitVersion project. They added numerous test cases to cover different merge message formats, including those from various platforms like GitHub, BitBucket, and TFS. The user refactored the test code, introduced new test scenarios, and added logging for matching merge message definitions to improve testing coverage and maintainability. Their work demonstrates a deep understanding of the project's core functionality and the ability to write comprehensive tests to validate it.
dotnetsemvergit-logversioningc-sharp
Kieranties/SimpleVersion
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
A simple approach to Semver
Contributions:17 releases, 12 reviews, 169 commits in 3 years 9 months
versioningapproachsemver
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