I build systems and the teams that build them.

Co-founder and CTO at DevAlly. A hands-on engineering leader, still deploying daily.

Co-founder & CTO, DevAlly
Prev. Principal Engineer, Shutterstock
Hands-On Engineering Leader
Dublin, IE
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About

Who / What / Where

At DevAlly we're making digital accessibility something product teams build in, not bolt on at the end. I lead from inside the work: still writing and reviewing code, still shaping the architecture, never far from the keyboard.

Before DevAlly, I spent the best part of seven years at Shutterstock, rising to Principal Software Engineer, leading architecture for the Content Services org. It was a long lesson in scale, and in keeping things simple enough to survive it.

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Role
Co-founder & CTO, DevAlly
Previously
Principal Software Engineer, Shutterstock
Based
Dublin, Ireland
Focus
Distributed systems architecture at scale, LLM-powered products, developer tooling, engineering leadership
Education
BSc Computer Science, 1st Class Honours, TU Dublin
Elsewhere
GitHub · LinkedIn · X
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Currently Building

2024–Present
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
DevAllyDevAlly
An AI-powered accessibility platform, made in Dublin

We help product teams audit, prioritise and fix accessibility issues in minutes, then keep them fixed with continuous monitoring. Accessibility, embedded into the development workflow instead of bolted on before a deadline.

As CTO I own the technical vision: the architecture behind automated WCAG auditing, the AI and LLM systems that make it scale, and the engineering team building it.

Visit devally.com
DevAlly automated accessibility audit dashboard
€2M
Pre-seed raised
2025
2024
Co-founded
in Dublin
AI-native
Code-level fixes
in GitHub & CI/CD
Featured in
TechCrunch · Fortune
Web Summit
Backed by Miles Ahead · Enterprise Ireland · NDRC
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Experience

2016–Present
2024–Now
DevAlly
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Current
2023–2024
Shutterstock
Principal Software Engineer · Content Services
2021–2023
Shutterstock
Staff Software Engineer
2019–2021
Shutterstock
Senior Software Engineer
2017–2019
Shutterstock
Software Engineer · Editorial
2016–2017
SAP
UX Application Developer · SAP AppHaus

Education

BSc Computer Science1st Class Honours · TU Dublin · 2012–2016

Recognition

Startup Battlefield 2024TechCrunch Disrupt
Slush 100, Top 3Slush · 2024
Best Project, DIT Project FairSAP · 2016
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Beyond the day job

Side projects & a camera