CM
Ciaran McKey
Engineering Lead

About Me

Hello 👋, I'm Ciaran, an Engineering Lead at Darktrace, I started my journey as a software engineer building and launching Darktrace /CLOUD. Since then I have been given a team with the MO of helping to modernise our tech stack. This means deploying more of our applications in highly distributed environments, with microservice based architectures. It also means bringing disparate services across the company which aim to solve the same problem, redesigning and implementing better multi-product and multi-tenant versions of these services to bring a unified view to our customers.

I love learning and building my skills in my free time. You can find some featured projects I've worked on to expand my technical skills on the projects page.

Lets not neglect the soft skills since they are an important aspect of being an engineer and manager. I devote a good portion of my time reading books and watching content to help improve my abilities as a manager. Some of my favorite books that I have read as of late include.

  • - Diary Of a CEO - Stephen Bartlett
  • - Lean Startup - Eric Ries
  • - Zero to One - Peter Thiel
  • - The One Thing - Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
  • - Surrounded by Idiots - Thomas Erikson
  • - The Chimp Paradox - Prof Steve Peters
  • - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
  • - Think like a Monk - Jay Shetty
  • - How to do the Work - Dr Nicole LePera

Outside of coding, I spend my time hiking, bouldering, snow boarding and travelling.

Stack

Python
FastAPI
Golang
TypeScript
JavaScript
PostgreSql
Redis
Git
Linux
GitLab CI
GitHub Actions
AWS S3
AWS IAM
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Lambda
AWS Route53
AWS SNS
AWS SQS
AWS DynamoDB
AWS RDS
AWS EKS
AWS ECS
AWS CloudTrail
Kubernetes
Docker
FluxCD
ArgoCD
Terraform
Helm