Sorcha Abel
Engineering Manager (Pipelines) at Buildkite
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSorcha Abel is an engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on software and people leadership experience, currently managing Pipelines engineering at Buildkite and previously building a second-level support engineering function there. She combines practical Ruby on Rails and modern backend expertise (Node.js, TypeScript, Go, AWS) with delivery leadership, technical design, and a track record of reducing operational friction through tooling and process improvements. Sorcha has progressed from senior engineer to delivery lead and manager by mentoring teams, improving predictability, and driving cross-team alignment on architecture and execution. Based in Brisbane after growing up in Dublin, she is co-founder of a community initiative (Rails Girls Brisbane), balances code reviews and targeted coding with strategic planning, and is known for translating customer-facing problems into durable engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of information technology, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of information technology, Computer Software Engineering at University of Southern Queensland
Github Skills (39)
continuous-deployment10
docker10
buildkite10
continuous-testing10
continuous-integration10
continuous-delivery10
cicd10
xero10
gocd10
vpc9
aws9
golang9
agent9
go9
api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SorchaAbel/railsgirls-bne.github.io
May 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:28 PRs, 119 pushes in 4 years
SorchaAbel/xeroizer
Apr 2015 - Feb 2020
Xero accounting system API library.
Contributions:8 PRs, 14 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 10 months
accountingapiaccounting-systemxeroapi-library
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