Ross Cadogan
Founding Engineer at Say, Pi
Leinster, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Cadogan is a founding engineer and AI entrepreneur with two decades of software experience, currently building voice-first interfaces as founder of Say, Pi and leading engineering at Format. He has deep roots in cognitive computing and healthcare SaaS from long tenures at IBM and Merative, where he helped ship clinical-development platforms. Ross blends backend and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the popular containrrr/watchtower project improving auth, error handling, and dependency management—with a focus on production-grade, maintainable systems. His specialty is making AI conversational and accessible through speech recognition and synthesis that works in real-world browsers and extensions. Based in Leinster, Ireland, he pairs mission-driven product instincts with hands-on engineering across startups and enterprise environments. A practical tinkerer at heart, he often bridges research ideas to usable tools that lower friction for everyday AI interactions.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Computer Science Computer Science, Bsc Computer Science Computer Science at University College Cork
Github Skills (11)
automation10
error-handling10
automations10
docker10
go10
devops10
containerization10
dockers10
continuous-delivery9
api9
apim9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
containrrr/watchtower
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
A process for automating Docker container base image updates.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Ross contributed to improving the error handling and error reporting mechanisms within the project, likely related to container management and image pulling. They also made changes to incorporate authentication for pulling images from private registries. Furthermore, the user migrated the client library from `samalba/dockerclient` to `docker/docker/client`, improving the software's dependency management and overall maintainability. Additional contributions include refactoring port mapping and updates to the project dependencies.
devopsbase-imagedockerupdatesnotifications
Pedal-Intelligence/saypi-userscript
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
An independent voice interface for Inflection AI's conversational assistant, Pi
Contributions:29 releases, 9 reviews, 75 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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