Summary
Shane Mccausland is a Technical Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience blending security detection, data engineering, and web development from Dublin, Ireland. Currently a Detection Engineer at Yahoo, he designs ETL pipelines, data onboarding and analytics (using AWS Lambdas, Terraform, Kinesis, SQS/SNS) to normalize telemetry into ECS and accelerate threat hunting and incident response. His background includes founding a web agency and running IT operations, giving him a rare mix of customer-focused product delivery and large-scale security engineering. Shane holds a B.Sc. in Computer Games Development and an MSc in Cybersecurity, and is comfortable moving between code, cloud infrastructure, and security playbooks. Notably, he has driven CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices to make security data pipelines more reliable and auditable.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
FETAC Level Five Information Technology, FETAC Level Five Information Technology at CTI Clonmel
Master of Science - MSc Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MSc Cybersecurity at Munster Technological University
Bachelor's Degree Computer Games Development, Bachelor's Degree Computer Games Development at University of Limerick
English, French, Irish