Ronan Browne
Senior Engineering Manager at Gong
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolRonan Browne is a Senior Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building and operating CI/CD platforms, Kubernetes infrastructure, and cloud-native tooling for FinTech and blockchain at R3 and Gong. He leads multidisciplinary teams across continents, driving developer experience improvements, cost optimisations (including a >40% cloud-cost reduction) and ISO 27001–grade security and SDLC practices. Hands-on in JVM ecosystems and DevOps, he still codes Groovy/Java/Kotlin pipelines while architecting Terraform-backed EKS deployments, observability with OpenTelemetry, and service mesh adoption. He regularly consults onsite with major clients—most notably supporting CBDC rollouts in the Middle East—and contributes to prominent open-source projects like Corda by hardening build and CI processes. With AWS and Oracle certifications and a strong academic project record, he blends practical engineering depth with strategic leadership to deliver reliable, auditable production platforms.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Honours in Computing Computer Science, BSc Honours in Computing Computer Science at National College of Ireland
English
Github Skills (10)
gradle10
kotlin10
distributed-ledger10
gradlew10
devops10
cicd10
corda10
distributed-ledger-technology10
dockers9
docker9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
corda/corda
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Corda is an open source blockchain project, designed for business from the start. Only Corda allows you to build interoperable blockchain networks that transact in strict privacy. Corda's smart contract technology allows businesses to transact directly, with value.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:126 reviews, 131 commits, 168 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ronan primarily worked on updating the Corda project's build and deployment infrastructure, specifically focusing on CI/CD pipeline enhancements. They made changes to the Jenkinsfile, removing authentication details from the Gradle wrapper download process and adding a helper for CI environments. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to white space and performed minor tidying up of the configuration files. Furthermore, there are changes related to internal code, including transaction verification.
interoperabledltsmart-contractprivacytransact
corda/corda5-token-sdk
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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