Deirdre Keane

Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Cinder Finance, focused on distributed databases. Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion. Shipped 21 launches on the storage team without a rollback. Before that: Microsoft and ASOS. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Aug 2024 - Present
   Cinder Finance · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 23% in two quarters.
   • Moved 93% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Senior Software Engineer

   Oct 2022 - Aug 2024
   Microsoft · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 17 million requests a day.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 28 minutes to under 4.
3. Software Engineer

   May 2020 - Oct 2022
   ASOS · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 41% in two quarters.
4. Software Engineer

   Nov 2017 - May 2020
   Bloomberg · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Shipped 28 launches on the storage team without a rollback.

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Education

1. University of Edinburgh

   MA, Computer Engineering
   2019 - 2021
2. University College Dublin

   BSc, Computer Engineering
   2013 - 2016