Tony Finn
Lead Software Engineer at Personio
Ireland
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Top SchoolTony Finn is a Lead Software Engineer with 14 years' experience building and leading teams that deliver automated ad verification and programmatic advertising systems. He combines hands-on full-stack implementation in Java EE, Node.js, Ember and React with architectural design and CI/CD-driven delivery for high-throughput ad platforms. At Yahoo and AOL he led cross-functional teams to design detection and forecasting services, and more recently has driven recruitment tooling at Personio. Tony contributes to open-source infrastructure—notably improving AOL’s micro-server Java framework—bringing practical microservice and functional-Java experience to production systems. He is comfortable translating stakeholder needs into measurable metrics and reliable pipelines, and mentors engineers to raise team velocity and code quality. Based in Ireland, he blends deep backend infrastructure knowledge with frontend product sensibility to ship end-to-end solutions.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Waterpark College, WaterfordApplied Computing Computer Software Engineering, Applied Computing Computer Software Engineering at Waterford Institute of Technology
Github Skills (16)
aws-s310
javas10
microservices-application10
microservices10
amazon-s310
java10
s3-bucket10
spring-boot10
api-design9
restful-api9
aws9
jersey9
rest-api9
api-rest9
json9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
aol/micro-server
Jun 2016 - Jul 2017
Microserver is a Java 8 native, zero configuration, standards based, battle hardened library to run Java Rest Microservices via a standard Java main class. Supporting pure Microservice or Micro-monolith styles.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tony primarily contributed to the backend of the micro-server project. They focused on improving the stability and functionality of the application by fixing bugs, adding features, and improving logging. Their commits included adding annotations for JSON serialization, improving S3 manifest comparator, and enabling support for AWS role-based authentication. These changes likely involved core server logic and infrastructure enhancements.
java-8micronautmicroservicezero-configurationzero
tonyfinn/runtime-macros-derive
Jan 2020 - Dec 2024
Simulate expansion of procedural macros at run time
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 25 PRs in 4 years 11 months
macrosproceduralexpansionprocedural-macrossimulate
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