Ciaran Downey
Senior Backend Engineer at Blitzy
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCiaran Downey is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver reliable, scalable distributed systems for telematics and mass-customization platforms. He blends hands-on backend architecture and incident response practice with product-focused roadmapping, having driven migrations, Python deprecations, and near-real-time crash-detection systems at TrueMotion and Cambridge Mobile Telematics. Known for improving developer workflows—CI/CD, build systems, and release automation—he also helped design global planning and order-routing services at Cimpress. Based in Somerville, MA, Ciaran thrives at the intersection of business and engineering, turning complex operational constraints into extensible, customer-generic features. A pragmatic technical leader, he balances reducing long-standing technical debt with shipping innovative products that keep teams engaged.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Packer Collegiate InstituteBachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Science at University of Rochester
Github Skills (66)
azure-functions10
dotnet10
aws-lambda10
nancy10
mono10
aws10
dotnet-core10
microcks9
lambda9
cloud-services9
versioning9
swagger9
http9
serverless9
postman-collection9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Cimpress-MCP/docker-node-awscli
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 months
aws-clidocker-imagedockernodejsaws
yahehe/sw-exporter
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
This tool will parse intercepted data from Summoners War and extract information on the monsters and runes of the user.
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
pythonsummoners-warrunesextract-informationparse
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