CarTrawler - Director of Engineering (Interim) 2024 – 2025
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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.
Core Competencies
| Leadership & People | Delivery & Strategy | Technology |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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Role Progression
CarTrawler - Director of Engineering (Interim) 2024 – 2025 CarTrawler - Senior Engineering Manager 2019 – 2024 | 2025 - 2026 CarTrawler - Engineering Manager 2017 – 2019 CarTrawler - Front End Developer 2013 – 2017 
TerminalFour - Web Developer 2010 – 2013 
CustomerMinds - Web Developer 2008 – 2010 Work Experience
CarTrawler
2013 – 2026 | cartrawler.com, 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)
Oct 2024 – May 2025
- • 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.
- • 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.
- • 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
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
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
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
TerminalFour
2010 – 2013 | Web Developer | terminalfour.com, Dublin, Ireland
CustomerMinds
2008 – 2013 | Web Developer | customerminds.com, Dublin, Ireland
Education
MSc Creative Digital Media
2014 – 2017 | Technology University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
BSc (Hons) Multimedia in Computer Programming
2006 – 2007 | IADT, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
BSc Computing in Multimedia Systems
2003 – 2006 | IADT, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
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