Portfolio

I got promoted to Senior Software Engineer at HubSpot! 😎

I took part in Hackathon na Gaeilge, an Irish-language hackathon. Our idea was to create an app that would help people organise Irish-language meetups. We wrote the app and a presentation (all in I...

I tried out Advent of Code this year! I got as far as Day 16, which was a new record for em. I took the opportunity to try out TypeScript for the first time and I really liked it! https://github.co...

I gave a lightning talk at ShortStack Conference today. I haven't spoken in ages (I gave a HubSpot talk for UCD Netsoc late last year, but that's all I've done since SISTEM 2020) and it was nice to...

As part of SISTEM 2020, I hosted the "Panels" stream of the conference. I acted as an MC for the room, introducing panels and their speakers, as well as making sure everything ran smoothly in the r...

We held one of our first official meetings for SISTEM 2020 in June 2019, nine months before the conference. We had really big plans for the conference to grow on the successes of SISTEM 2019. https...

I developed and launched Amhrán (the Irish word for "song"), a website that promoted one new Irish song every day. I had just finished a workshop on front-end development and I wanted to put those ...

In UCD's Society Awards 2019, we won the award for Best Small Society. This was a massive surprise and a really lovely way to close out my year as head of the society. 🥳

As part of UCD Netsoc, I helped organise loads of events. I had no experience running events before joining Netsoc's committee and it was a bit of a shock to see exactly how much work was needed to...

I was part of the committee that organised SISTEM 2019, a tech conference by students for students. It was organised by many of the computing societies from around Ireland. This was UCD's first yea...

In April 2018, I was elected as Auditor of UCD Netsoc (a college society). The club had been a bit inactive for a few years so it was challenging to build the organization, generate interest for ev...

It took the best part of 5 months, but I completed my Final Year Project for my degree. I created an Android journey planning app for cyclists called dBikes Planner, using the Dublinbikes bike-shar...

In Summer 2019, I did a 3-month internship as a Software Engineer in HubSpot. It had a lot of fun building back-end APIs, and then built an internal front-end app to consume those APIs. I learned a...

I graduated from University College Dublin with a BSc in Computer Science after 4 years of studying. It was a great time, even if the pandemic meant I had to graduate from home...

Quinntessentials was a student radio show/podcast that dives into some of the greatest albums of the past and present. I hosted this show alongside a different guest every week, we look at some of ...