Dermot Dooley
Senior Engineering Leader
Section titled “Senior Engineering Leader”Engineering leader with 15+ years experience building high-performing teams in Irish tech. Track record of delivering complex technical programmes at pace while creating engineering cultures where people grow, stay, and do their best work - grounded in clear career progression, psychological safety, and a sharp commercial lens.
| Leadership & People | Delivery & Strategy | Technology |
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| Building Effective Teams | Drives Vision & Purpose | Technical Strategy |
| Talent Development & Hiring | Organisational Savvy | Platform Modernisation |
| Communication & Influence | OKRs & Roadmap Alignment | Performance Optimisation |
| Coaching & Mentoring | Agile & Scaled Delivery | Data & Analytics |
| Org Design & Career Frameworks | Stakeholder Management | Front-End Engineering |
Director of Engineering (Interim) 2024 – 2025 Senior Engineering Manager 2019 – 2024 | 2025 - 2026 Engineering Manager 2017 – 2019 Front End Developer 2013 – 2017 
Web Developer 2010 – 2013 
Web Developer 2008 – 2010 CarTrawler
Section titled “CarTrawler”2013 - 2026 | CarTrawler, Dublin, Ireland
CarTrawler is the world’s leading B2B travel technology platform, operating at a massive global scale across 190 countries and 50,000+ locations. The company’s proprietary technology integrates with over 1,700 car rental and mobility suppliers, displaying more than 4 billion cars daily to provide unparalleled choice and availability. By powering the ancillary revenue streams for over 2,000 travel brands—including global leaders like United Airlines, American Airlines, and Ryanair.
- Director of Engineering (Interim)
Section titled “- Director of Engineering (Interim)”Oct 2024 – May 2025
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Stepped in during a critical leadership transition to own the Engineering, Architecture, and Insights functions across a 10-squad department - stabilising delivery pipelines and maintaining 100% project delivery throughout.
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Represented Engineering at C-Suite level as part of the Product & Technology Leadership Team, owning departmental strategy and managing executive stakeholder relationships during a period of significant organisational change.
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Defined and executed the Departmental Engineering Strategy, aligning technical roadmaps directly to commercial objectives and ensuring the platform was positioned for long-term scalability.
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- Established departmental operating cadences - OKRs, Agile frameworks, and leadership forums - creating clear alignment between technical teams and executive strategy.
- Championed diversity and inclusion through active sponsorship of Women in Tech initiatives, contributing to a stronger, more representative engineering culture.
- Senior Engineering Manager
Section titled “- Senior Engineering Manager”Feb 2019 – Oct 2024 | May 2025 – Mar 2026
(Role resumed post-Interim Director period)
- Lead and mentor 21–30 engineers across multiple squads, including Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, with accountability for org design, career development, and long-term team strategy.
- Drive continuous delivery of major partner integrations - easyJet, AFKLM, American Airlines, and Uber - alongside foundational platforms including a Campaign Management System and Customer Portal.
- Scale engineering capacity dynamically (+/- 20 headcount), balancing full-time staff development with strategic use of trusted contracting partners.
- Delivered a car imagery overhaul - leading technical strategy through to execution - resulting in annualised savings of €200k and a measurably improved user experience through 3D model integration.
- Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 10% (€120k) through targeted performance and cost optimisation, alongside launching SnowPlow Advanced Analytics to improve data-driven decision-making.
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- Introduced a new organisational structure and Engineering Levels Framework, standardising career progression across the department.
- Modernised legacy integration documentation from a broken Sphinx setup to Astro Starlight, using AI tooling to accelerate delivery and restore a critical partner resource.
- Established Engineering Days, brown-bag sessions, and in-office competitions to build a stronger Product & Technology culture and improve team engagement.
- Engineering Manager – Multiple Teams
Section titled “- Engineering Manager – Multiple Teams”Oct 2017 – Feb 2019
- Led cross-functional teams of 10–14 engineers, clearing a critical backlog of partner requests and materially improving delivery throughput.
- Improved release cadence through process discipline and architectural decoupling, reducing technical debt and shortening the delivery cycle.
- Built a centralised design system and logo library, eliminating redundant front-end work and establishing consistent brand standards across partner integrations.
- Front End Developer
Section titled “- Front End Developer”Apr 2013 – Oct 2017
- Built and maintained customised partner websites, supporting B2C brands. Improved performance and visibility through optimisation, dashboards, and standardisation projects.
Previous Experience
Section titled “Previous Experience”TerminalFour
Section titled “TerminalFour”2010 – 2013 | Web Developer | TerminalFour, Dublin, Ireland
CustomerMinds
Section titled “CustomerMinds”2008 – 2013 | Web Developer | CustomerMinds, Dublin, Ireland
MSc Creative Digital Media
Section titled “MSc Creative Digital Media”2014 – 2017 | Technology University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
BSc (Hons) Multimedia in Computer Programming
Section titled “BSc (Hons) Multimedia in Computer Programming”2006 – 2007 | IADT, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
BSc Computing in Multimedia Systems
Section titled “BSc Computing in Multimedia Systems”2003 – 2006 | IADT, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
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