Declan Halbert
Back End Developer at National Hockey League (NHL)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDeclan Halbert is a back-end developer with eight years of experience building payment, enterprise, and media systems, currently engineering server-side features for the National Hockey League. A Boston University computer science graduate, he has moved between startups and large enterprises—co-founding and serving as CTO of an edtech startup in high school, then contributing to Mastercard’s Track BPS team and Cisco’s release tooling. Declan’s background spans full-stack and infrastructure work, including database migrations with Selenium/Java, Angular-based maintenance, and production-grade backend services. He blends startup scrappiness with disciplined release and change management practices learned at Cisco and large financial systems at Mastercard. Comfortable teaching technical subjects (he designed and taught game design courses at MIT’s iD Tech), he brings strong cross-team communication and mentoring skills to complex engineering efforts. Living and working in New York, he’s focused on reliable, scalable back-end solutions that support high-traffic consumer and enterprise experiences.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Boston University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
mechanics5
spring4
python3
machine-learning2
spotify1
soundcloud1
react1
shopify1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
goferbat/LeetCode-Prep
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 13 days
goferbat/RoyalAndAncientChappyLinksReservationService
Aug 2025 - Jun 2026
Reservation service for the RACL in Chappaquiddick, MA
Contributions:6 PRs, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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