Paul Breen
Head Of Data Platforms And Engineering
Ireland
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Top SchoolPaul Breen is a seasoned data and engineering leader with nearly three decades of experience delivering complex programmes across financial services, public sector and telecoms. As Head of Data Platforms and Engineering at Davy, he combines deep expertise in data warehousing, application and vendor management with a track record of running large-scale order management, CRM and investment systems. He progressed through hands-on application management and programme leadership roles at Davy and Fujitsu, bringing practical delivery discipline to strategic platform initiatives. Known for bridging technical teams and business stakeholders, he repeatedly turns regulatory and operational complexity into auditable, scalable solutions. Based in Ireland and grounded in a Trinity College Information Systems degree, he blends programme-level oversight with a pragmatic appreciation for legacy system evolution and vendor ecosystems. An interesting through-line: his career shows sustained continuity at one firm while evolving from project delivery into platform leadership, highlighting both loyalty and adaptive growth.
9 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc IS, Information Systems, Bsc IS, Information Systems at Trinity College DublinNCEA Certificate, Civil Engineering, NCEA Certificate, Civil Engineering at Waterford Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (14)
paths9
net-library8
cognitive-services7
refactoring7
csharp5
azure-cognitive-services5
asp-net-core5
asp-net-mvc5
azure5
dotnet5
asp-net-core-mvc4
ruby4
mvc3
asp-net3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
paulbreen/Cognitive-Azure
Feb 2018 - Jun 2021
A sample web app utilizing azure cognitive services
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 97 pushes in 3 years 4 months
azure-cognitive-servicesweb-samplecognitivecognitive-servicesazure
paulbreen/Scientist.net
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
A .NET library for carefully refactoring critical paths. It's a port of GitHub's Ruby Scientist library
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
net-librarydotnetcriticalrubypaths
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