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(1996 - 1998)
2024
2023
2023
This Next Thing is an annual gathering of 200 founders, investors, creatives, and inventors in the Swiss alps.
2022
2022
Broadstone is a pre-seed syndicate investing in founders in Ireland and across Europe. We're typically first money in, and get hands on with the fundraising process. As a syndicate we invest €150k - €400k, in pre-seed rounds. Our syndicate members are a mix of experienced founder / operators and HNWs from tech and non-tech backgrounds.
2019 - 2021
2019 - 2021
Boundless makes it easy to employ people in other countries, by handling payroll, taxes and employment law compliance.
2015 - 2018
2015 - 2018
Cohort was created to help people develop relationships in their professional network. Built on a bespoke social graph mined from public and private data, Cohort predicted the strength of relationships and how that intersected with knowledge, skills and abilities within a given group of people.
2011 - 2014
2011 - 2014
A pioneer in Platform as a Service, backed by Benchmark, NEA and Amazon, Engine Yard made it easy for developers of apps to deploy and scale in the cloud. I joined Engine Yard as VP Eng when they acquired Orchestra. I transitioned to VP Developer Relations and along with a solid team of community focussed engineers,helped to define the foundation of modern DevRel.
2011 - 2011
2011 - 2011
A cloud platform for deploying, scaling and managing web apps. Bootstrapped and sold to Engine Yard in a multimillion euro deal, within 6 months of launch.
2008 - 2011
2008 - 2011
echolibre was a small devshop building apps for startups and medium sized businesses. Over the course or 3 years we helped design, develop, ship and support backend software projects for 50 clients around the world. We developed Orchestra as a side project to initially automate the laborious process of setting up and maintaining cloud based environment for app deployments. It was subsequently spun out as a stand alone project and acquired after 6 months by Engine Yard.
1998 - 2008
1998 - 2008
Before starting a dev shop in 2008, I held various technical / developer roles in a variety of SMBs: - Lead developer at web agency for a few years - Early developer at a leading travel booking web company - Technical support for a leading ISP - Database administration for a charity / non-profit - General IT contractor at various SMBs