Ciaran Kearney
Senior Software Engineer Cloud Platform
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCiaran Kearney is a Lead Data Engineer based in Belfast with 11 years of software experience and over six years focused on data and distributed systems using Scala, Java, Spark, Hadoop and Akka. He currently leads data engineering at BT and previously delivered PCI-DSS compliant ETL, streaming, and Hadoop self-service platforms at Kainos for major UK financial and insurance clients. Comfortable across cloud (ECS/EC2, Lambda, Kafka), search (Elasticsearch), and ML tooling, he has built real-time transaction pipelines and PoCs that combined ML (RandomForest, KNN, HMM) with geospatial visualisations. Security-vetted (SC clearance and AccessNI) and trained to a first-class Computing Science degree, he pairs hands-on engineering with an eye for compliance and operational reliability. His GitHub bio hints at dry developer humour, reflecting a pragmatic, no-nonsense approach to complex system design.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours, Computing Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours, Computing Science at Ulster University
Github Skills (19)
maven-plugin10
scala10
maven10
scalafmt10
oozie7
splunk5
java4
solr4
logging4
spark3
hdfs3
sbt2
dataframes1
kafka1
docker1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SimonJPegg/scoozie
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
Library for generating oozie workflows
Contributions:9 releases, 29 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 10 months
oozie
SimonJPegg/spark-solr
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
Example of ingesting solr documents from HDFS via spark
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
hdfssolrspark
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