Tomas Mckinless
Director & CTO at Semvar
Dublin, Dublin 1, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTomas Mckinless is a Director and CTO based in Dublin with 12 years of hands-on engineering and leadership experience building products from seed-stage startups to industrial IoT and enterprise platforms. He founded and scaled an award-winning competitive gaming startup that reached 30k active users and later transitioned to leading IoT and compliance platform development, now accelerating time-to-market for regulated industries with a digital twin infrastructure. Tomas blends full-stack development experience—NodeJS, WebRTC, Java—and practical Dev/ops thinking with a strong background in backend systems, having contributed robust event-driven logic to open-source projects like a Dota 2 node-steam plugin. He has a proven track record of shipping production-grade software under commercial constraints, integrating sensors, analytics and audit trails for water, food and facilities compliance. Known for pragmatic product decisions informed by both founding and enterprise experience, he prioritises fast, auditable delivery without sacrificing engineering quality.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
St Mary's Grammar School MagherafeltBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of UlsterBTEC National Diploma, Computer Software Engineering, BTEC National Diploma, Computer Software Engineering at Northern Regional College
Github Skills (7)
message-bus10
message-handler10
nodejs10
javascript10
messaging10
messagebox10
message-system10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Arcana/node-dota2
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
A node-steam plugin for Dota 2.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 9 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Tomas primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Dota 2 plugin. Their work involved adding support for new game coordinator (GC) messages related to practice lobbies and chat channels. This included implementing functionality for joining broadcast channels and handling events when users left or joined channels, ensuring the correct emission of events. They also addressed bugs related to chat channel handling, refactoring and improving the overall robustness of the system.
node-steamnodejsdota-2dotasteam
tomasmck/node-dota2
Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
A node-steam plugin for Dota 2.
Contributions:4 PRs, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
node-steamnodejsdota-2dotasteam
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