Ronan Doolan
Senior SRE at Booking.com
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolRonan Doolan is a Senior SRE based in Dublin with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native and on-prem infrastructure for high-profile enterprises like Booking.com, Mastercard, and Walmart. He specializes in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/Anthos/Openshift), GitOps with ArgoCD, service meshes, and observability stacks (Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Loki, Elasticsearch), and has led migrations and platform work across Terragrunt, Helm and Istio. Ronan also bridges ML and infra as an MLOps practitioner—deploying models to SageMaker, managing MLflow registries, and creating ML pipelines with Jenkins, MLeap and PySpark. Notably, he developed an AI-powered Q&A system using OpenAI and vector databases, highlighting a knack for combining research-grade thinking (PhD in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks) with pragmatic production systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who thrives on complex distributed systems and observability-driven reliability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Mechatronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Mechatronic Engineering at DCUDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks at Dublin City University
English, German
Stackoverflow
197reputation
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3answers
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Github Skills (112)
python10
ibm-cloud10
terraform10
r10
big-data10
terraform-registry10
scale10
sql10
shell10
cli10
spark10
console10
java10
large-scale10
scala10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ronandoolan2/terraform-provider-ibm
May 2023 - Apr 2024
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
ronandoolan2/spark
May 2023 - Jun 2023
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Contributions:3 releases, 6 pushes, 2 tags in 23 days
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