Ronan O'driscoll
Software Engineering Manager at Wattpad
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolRonan O'driscoll is a Software Engineering Manager with nine years of focused experience in platform and backend engineering, currently leading the Backend Platform team at Wattpad from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, having progressed from Senior Platform Engineer to managing client enablement and platform delivery. His background spans enterprise and startup environments, with deep experience in Ruby on Rails, Java/J2EE ecosystems, identity/connectors for SaaS, and cloud-ready backend systems. Ronan also brings an unusual blend of technical and creative skills—he’s authored multiple novels and worked as a faculty member mentoring IT students—adding strong communication and storytelling to his leadership style. Comfortable liaising across product, infrastructure, and external vendors, he excels at turning complex integration challenges into practical, maintainable platform solutions. He maintains a GitHub presence tied to NSCC and a history of building bridges between academia, publishing, and production engineering.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer Programming, Diploma Computer Programming at Centre for Advanced Technology TrainingMA English, MA English at University College DublinDJS Japanese Studies, DJS Japanese Studies at University of Limerick
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
git9
github9
gatsby9
react9
graphql9
frontend8
compiler8
fastest8
static-site-generator7
patch7
merge7
subversion5
hugo1
hugo-theme1
hugo-boilerplate1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RonanOD/laracasts54
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:11 commits in 3 months
w0404884/hello-world
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
javagame
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