Aoife Dynan
Belfast
Summary
A software engineer with over 2 ½ years of industry experience working on system platforms to distribute and deliver products and data. My experience prodominatley lies in backend services in Kotlin, Java and Go, focusing on maintaining platform stability and optimizing business monetization. With a strong foundation in problem-solving, programming, and teamwork, I value readable and testable code, and a simplified approach to code designs through collaboration and learning.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Software Engineer I
EverQuote
Belfast
2024.08 - Current
- Delivered core components of a company-wide initiative to transition the Online auction and Inbound Calls to new streamlined distribution pipeline, contributing to design, development, and delivery of new auction functionality. (Kotlin/Golang)
- Implemented auction bid adjustment functionality for inbound calls and online auctions, utilising DynamoDB storage, estimator logic, and comprehensive automated testing. (Golang)
- Implemented and led reconciliation process to validate Match data between new auction database and legacy match database utilising AWS Lambdas. (Kotlin/Golang/Java)
- Diagnosed and resolved data reconciliation issues caused by timestamp precision mismatches, redesigning reconciliation queries to reduce latency and eliminate timeouts.
- Deprecated and replaced legacy GRPC endpoint in favour of new REST endpoint in internal company testing tool, implementing both the back-end and front-end. (Kotlin/Typescript)
- Contributed to architecture improvements in auction service, identifying cyclical dependencies and supporting refactoring efforts to simplify and align auction-specific workflows.
- Helped deprecate Kafka event-driven architecture in favour of synchronous service endpoints, eliminating redundant infrastructure and reducing AWS costs by ~$4K/month.
- Contributed to the implementation of a new Recent Clicks filter, building a new Ad Consumer SQS and collaborating with external teams.
- Helped deprecate Flagr throughout the domain in favour of AWS App Config for feature flagging and dynamic configuration.
- Developed internal automation tool “Goatbot” to monitor AWS RDS and Redis upgrades, automatically creating GitHub Issues and Slack alerts to ensure proactive infrastructure maintenance. (Bash)
- Part of the on-call rotation responding to and diagnosing production alerts and also remediating issues.
Software Engineering Intern
Rapid7
Belfast
2022.06 - 2023.05
- Worked on a mass multi-regional database migration project requiring immense and in depth testing and metrics monitoring in addition to quick production response. (Java)
- Implemented new features directly requested from customers and stakeholders. (Java)
- Considerable experience developing and testing RESTful APIs and microservices. (Java/JOOQ)
- Fixed, analysed and documented bugs to prevent repeat issues.
- Peer-reviewed code to ensure clean and stable software solutions were being implemented and that bugs and logic issues were being remedied.
- Experience with unit and integration test frameworks.
- Involved in design meetings and infrastructure planning.
Education
BEng Hons - Software Engineering
Ulster University
Belfast 2020.09 - 2024.05
Skills
- Kotlin, Golang, Java, Python, SQL, Typescript
- REST APIs, GRPC, Spring Boot, JOOQ, JPQL, Maven, Gradle, Terraform
- Micorservices, monoliths, even-driven & serverless architecture, distributed systems
- Aurora MySQL, DynamoDB, Snowflake, ProstgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes
- AWS (EKS, EC2, SQS, SNS, S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM, Elasticache, App Config, Secrets Manager)
- Postman, Git, GHA, CI/CD, JUnit, Mockito, Testify, Localstack
Timeline
Software Engineer I
EverQuote
2024.08 - Current
Software Engineering Intern
Rapid7
2022.06 - 2023.05
BEng Hons - Software Engineering
Ulster University
2020.09 - 2024.05