Rory Powell
Staff Software Engineer at EquipmentShare
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRory Powell is a senior software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building RESTful microservices and cloud-native systems using JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java and AWS. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Rapid7, Budibase and Slice and now contributes to equipment-focused software at EquipmentShare, blending startup agility with enterprise-grade engineering. Rory pairs strong backend expertise with Agile delivery practices and a track record of shipping resilient services in production. A Queen’s University Belfast graduate with consistently high academic performance, he brings both technical depth and a practical focus on operational reliability. Notably, his career path shows repeated internal promotion and leadership at Rapid7, reflecting an ability to scale impact within teams.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
First class BEng, Computer Science, First class BEng, Computer Science at Queen's University BelfastHigh School - A* A* A, High School - A* A* A at St. Patrick's High School Keady
Github Skills (15)
jenkins-plugin9
artifactory8
rfc3
aws3
java2
dsl2
ruby2
pool2
aws-cloudformation1
connection-pool1
high-performance1
hikaricp1
jdbc1
json-patch1
database1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/insightappsec-plugin
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
InsightAppSec Jenkins Plugin
Contributions:105 commits, 12 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 4 months
jenkins-plugin
r-powell-r7/r-powell-r7.github.io
Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
IAS free trial testing
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
testingiasaws
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