Summary
Paul Kelly is an IT consultant and developer with a Master's in Computer Science and over a decade of hands-on experience delivering customer-focused software across startups and large organisations. He specializes in Scala and functional tooling (ZIO), TypeScript/React front-ends, and AWS cloud services, applying that stack to production systems at companies like Shutterstock, Zalando and The Fresh UK. Paul blends engineering with leadership鈥攈aving served as a software engineering manager, senior Scala engineer, and current assistant lecturer鈥攕o he routinely mentors teams while shipping robust, scalable services. His work spans backend systems, cloud security, and event-driven architectures (SNS, RDS, S3), showing a pragmatic balance of architecture and operational detail. Based in Ireland, he brings an academic rigor to practical problem solving and often bridges theory and practice in the classroom and the codebase. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained focus on functional Scala and ZIO, enabling highly composable, resilient systems that reduce runtime complexity.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer