Paul Connolly
Principal Architect at Instacart
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Connolly is a Principal Architect with 14 years of experience designing and delivering high-performance, cloud-native distributed systems for grocery and retail platforms. He led architecture for MyWebGrocer/Mi9 Retail and spun out Wynshop to focus on grocery commerce, recently joining Instacart after Wynshop’s acquisition. Paul specializes in event-sourced microservices on Kubernetes (GKE), having built platforms that handled tens of thousands of concurrent users and large daily order volumes. Comfortable across backend, DDD and systems design, he pairs hands-on engineering with product-focused architecture to drive scalable solutions for retailers worldwide. Based in Ireland, he brings a track record of turning legacy ecommerce stacks into resilient, observable systems and a knack for operationalizing complex realtime integrations.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Design and Development, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Design and Development at Technological University DublinBlessington Community College
Github Skills (63)
progressive-enhancement9
asp-net-core9
asp-net9
cross-browser9
logging9
telemetry9
netcore8
opentelemetry8
python8
deep-learning8
dotnet8
ilogger8
machine-learning8
distributed-tracing8
messaging7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gibletto/twitch.net
Nov 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:10 commits, 1 comment in 11 months
apidotnettv-apitwitch-tvtwitch
gibletto/MGSHDFix
May 2026 - Jul 2026
A fix that adds custom resolutions, ultrawide support and much more to the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection.
Contributions:47 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
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