Gemma Hayes

Software Engineer, Accenture - Erlang/OTP · Redis · low-latency systems

Accenture

Dublin, Ireland · GMT (UTC+0)

2+ years experience

University of Bristol

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I work on real-time systems at Accenture in Dublin. Led the migration of 27 services to Redis. Most at home with Go and Elixir.

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low-latency systemsRedisGoErlang/OTPElixir

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Looking for feedback on my resume from someone in cybersecurity

Goal: Prepare for senior interviews in real-time systems.
Where I am now: Some experience
Ideal mentor: Someone who has worked in real-time systems for a few years
Cadence: Monthly
What I can offer back: Help with frontend work

2 years in so far. Looking for honest feedback, once or twice a month.

Dublin, Irelandlow-latency systemsredisgo

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Experience

Software Engineer
Dec 2024 - Present
Accenture · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 6.
- Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 538ms to 96ms.
- Wrote the low-latency systems service that now handles 48 million requests a day.

Projects

Real-time systems benchmark

2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Elixir and low-latency systems on real workloads.

Side project: a recipe search engine

2022

Built with Go and Redis. 3603 people used it last year.

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Education

University of Bristol
BSc, Electronics and Communication
2021 - 2024

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