Summary
Paul Cosgrove is a Senior Developer based in Dundee with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating web applications across PHP and Ruby on Rails stacks. He brings deep expertise in server-side engineering, MySQL/Postgres tuning, and deploying resilient services on Linux and Windows using Nginx, Apache and Unicorn. Paul has led engineering teams and backend efforts at fintech and global talent platforms, translating complex payment and distributed-system requirements into reliable APIs and infrastructure. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs pragmatic front-end skills in HTML/CSS/JavaScript with a strong ops mindset from frequent deployments and server administration. A disciplined Agile practitioner, he moves fluidly between technical leadership and individual contribution, and — true to his GitHub bio — he’s a man of few words except when debating Godzilla.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Computer Science, Computer Science, BEng Computer Science, Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast