Macdara Roche
Chief Executive Officer at RAID Studios
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolMacdara Roche is a game-focused technology and operations leader with nine years of experience building memorable player and community experiences from grassroots LAN tournaments to leading RAID Studios as CEO. He combines hands-on technical chops—especially around Discord and broadcast tooling—with strategic operations, having scaled event, IT and live-broadcast capabilities for partners like Jagex and FatShark. Comfortable embedding teams into live-development cycles, he designs community-first programs including playtesting, streaming and creative campaigns for both AAA and indie studios. A Trinity Computer Science graduate and former founder, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a track record of maintaining high-availability web platforms and bespoke tooling for streaming communities. Notably, his background spans both product development (React-based control panels) and the day-to-day engineering that keeps high-traffic community sites and broadcasts running smoothly.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
English, Irish, French
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Github Skills (20)
assign10
minecraft9
twitch9
discord-bot9
discord8
sourcemod7
nodejs7
whitelist7
discord-py6
js6
server6
javascript6
twitter4
social-media4
pocketmine4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AlthalusAvan/TwitchMC
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
The easy way to create a sub-only Minecraft server
Contributions:3 releases, 9 reviews, 63 commits in 1 year
minecrafttwitchminecraft-serverminecraft-pluginserver
AlthalusAvan/discord-minecraft-whitelist
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
A quick and easy discord bot to whitelist users in Minecraft based on roles on a Discord server. Made for use with Twitch subscribers.
Contributions:12 PRs, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
minecraftdiscordbot-discord-easybotdiscord-bot
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