Padraig Meaney

Web and Full Stack Developer


Profile


Experienced web developer with a proven track record in designing and implementing both internal and public-facing websites. Specialized expertise in SEO, ensuring optimal search engine visibility, and a commitment to accessibility standards, ensuring inclusivity for all users. Adept at optimizing website performance for enhanced user experience. Fully proficient end to end, from REST API to database, including cloud technology.

Work Experience


Rent The Runway

2019 - Present

Staff Software Engineer

My role at RTR has been to lead the frontend community in addition to working closely with leadership to deliver on goals for both our eCommerce website and internal applications. My role also extends to being hands-on with low-level deployment details including CI / CD pipelines, container runtime details (both docker and kubernetes), and metrics (OpenTelemetry). Lastly, I am involved in building out several nodejs backend REST APIs on top of our new NextJS technology stack.

Roles and Responsibilities
  • Lead and mentor of the frontend guild, including identifying and co-ordinating new industry best practices, techniques, and technologies
  • Communicate and influence top level website OKRs throughout the technical org, including VPs and the CTO
  • Architected, advocated for, and implemented new cutting edge nextjs technology stack to replace (in place) ruby stack with proven impact

Electronic Arts Inc.

2016 - 2019

Software Engineer II

At EA, I was tasked with ramping on the then in-beta .Net Core stack, then maintaining an application written using both ASP.net core and Angular / Angular.js. I maintained and developed this application from front end to DB, while also liasing with stakeholders on both feedback and feature requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities
  • Solo / Lead developer of full stack application which became essential to internal workflow
  • Interfaced directly with and took feedback from stakeholders and users to successfully iterate and improve the application
  • Lead a team of four developers across two sites to build and maintain an internal framework leveraged to create crucial internal apps

Avaya International Sales

2012 - 2016

Associate Software Engineer / Software Engineer I

At Avaya, I worked as part of a team across many different projects and stacks: an email management component written in Java, a management UI written in C# (WPF), a web chat stack written using web technologies and Java, and finally an iOS app written in Objective-C.

Roles and Responsibilities
  • Contributed to my team across a variety of technologies (C#, Java, Web technologies)
  • Learned from my team and gained hands on experience with all parts of the SDLC, including collaborating with other disciplines (QA, SRE)

References


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