Rachel Sweeney

Overview

17 years in software engineering, the last 2 at AIB, where I lead the growth team. Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Shell and BAE Systems. Most at home with TypeScript and React. Cyclist - trying to do a century this year.

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Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Feb 2025 - Present
   AIB · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Led the migration of 12 services to PostgreSQL.
   • Wrote the React service that now handles 15 million requests a day.
   • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2022 - Feb 2025
   Shell · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 15 a week to 3.
   • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Engineering Manager

   Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
   BAE Systems · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Built the experimentation framework 21 product teams use to ship changes safely.
4. Full-Stack Engineer

   Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
   Deliveroo · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Shipped 7 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
   • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 32% in two quarters.
5. Senior Full-Stack Engineer

   Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
   EY · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Grew the growth team from 5 to 30 engineers.
   • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 28 a week to 2.

Projects

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Education

1. University of Oxford

   BA, Electronics and Communication
   2006 - 2009