Senior Software Engineer specialising in .NET, Angular, Azure & Applied AI

Skills

Languages: C#, Angular, TypeScript, SQL, Some Python, Swift, JavaScript, PowerShell

AI & LLM Engineering: GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, RAG, evaluation frameworks, prompt/context engineering

Cloud & Infra: Azure (App Services, Functions, Service Bus, SQL, Cosmos DB, Search Service, Application Insights, Foundry), Hetzner (personal VPS), CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)

Certs: AZ-104 (Azure Admin), AZ-204 (Azure Developer), TU Dublin AI Certificate

Comms: ITAG Atlantic Festival main stage, ITAG AI Festival, technical presentations to clinical stakeholders (doctors, nurses, physicians)

Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Storm Technology – Galway

Nov 2021 – Present

  • Owned end-to-end delivery of AI capabilities for a high-profile Irish state agency: designed and built chat functionality, summarisation features, a structured evaluation framework, and a user feedback mechanism using Azure OpenAI. Drove major time savings for frontline staff.
  • Key engineer on the agency's case management platform, managing millions of cases across thousands of users. Built on .NET 8, Angular, Azure Functions, Azure SQL.
  • Drove application performance improvements across the stack: selective caching, query optimisation, response payload reduction, paging and conditional data loading, reducing API response times significantly on high-traffic endpoints.
  • Diagnosed and resolved a critical thread pool starvation issue, enabling the platform to scale down from 6 Azure App Service instances to 3, halving infrastructure costs.
  • Built Azure Functions to coordinate workflows and integrate services across the platform.
  • Owned outcomes of penetration tests and implemented security best practices including IP-based rate limiting, timing-safe authentication, and constant-time responses to prevent user enumeration.
  • Delivered features end-to-end, from requirements gathering and database design through to API development, frontend implementation, and production release.
  • Provided technical guidance and mentorship to developers through code reviews, architecture discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
  • Earned AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) and AZ-204 (Azure Developer) certifications.

Senior Software Engineer, Fidelity Investments – Galway

Mar 2021 – Nov 2021

  • Enterprise Cloud Computing team. Built internal platform features using .NET Core, Angular, Azure SQL, and Cosmos DB to help development teams across the organisation adopt Azure.
  • Provisioned secure cloud environments (VNETs, NSGs, RBAC) and automated environment setup with PowerShell, Runbooks, and Azure Blueprints, reducing environment provisioning from days to hours.
  • Automated API documentation workflows using custom C# attributes and Swagger, reducing manual errors. Managed API governance via Apigee.

Software Engineer / Azure Team Lead, Storm Technology – Galway

Jun 2018 – Mar 2021

  • Full-stack development of scalable cloud-native applications (.NET Core, Angular, EF Core, Azure SQL) with domain-driven design driving architecture decisions.
  • Designed and built event-driven system integrations using Azure Functions and Azure Service Bus with message queues to connect third-party systems (DellBoomi).
  • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for automated testing and deployment across Dev, Test, UAT, and Production.
  • Developed a cross-platform mobile app (Xamarin Forms, Cosmos DB, .NET Framework API) with Stripe payment integration and a custom voucher system. Managed app store submissions.
  • Solo built a progressive web app for the world's largest medical device company to promote products to customers.
  • Liaised directly with clients to gather requirements, presented sprint demos, and attended sales meetings providing technical depth.

R&D Engineer, Medtronic – Galway

Jul 2012 – Jun 2018

  • Led catheter balloon design for next-gen stent delivery systems. Created development plans aligned with project milestones.
  • Co-inventor on two patents for drug-eluting stent technology: methods for customising elution rates and profiles.
  • Designed and executed structured experiments (DOE, RSM) and built predictive models that reduced material cost and iteration cycles.
  • Six Sigma Black Belt trained (Design, Reliability, Manufacturability). Taught DRM Green Belt modules across departments.
  • Travelled to customer sites for product launches. Presented engineering insights to hospital staff including doctors and nurses.

Selected Projects

iOS App – Shipped iOS app using Swift, Supabase, and OpenAI. Full lifecycle: ideation, TestFlight, user testing and launch.

Farm Invoice Automation – Telegram bot as the UI, triggering an n8n workflow that uses Gemini AI to extract and categorise receipt images, filing them to structured Google Drive folders. Replaced manual paper process.

Blog (eamonkeane.dev) – Writing on software engineering, career, and personal topics. Self-hosted Ghost blog on Hetzner.

Education

Certificate in Artificial Intelligence, TU Dublin – 2023–2024

HDip Software Design & Development (1.1), NUI Galway – 2017–2018

BE (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, NUI Galway – 2008–2012

Patents

Co-inventor on two patents for drug-eluting stent technology (Medtronic): customisable elution rates and elution profile methods.

Interests

Competitive Hyrox athlete. Run a sheep farm with my father in Connemara.