Waterford Institute of Technology

Arklow CBS

CTO at OpenBack® – Dynamic Notifications

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Senior Software Engineer

OpenBack is about putting customers first. Using edge computing on the mobile device, OpenBack uses machine learning to deliver app messages to customers at a time that suits them through smart notifications. Getting the notification at the right time leads to better customer engagement, personalized mobile experiences and drives increased revenue.  With unique 360° customer intelligence, OpenBack clients consistently see open rates of 20-40%.  OpenBack’s goal is to make customers more engaged with a client’s brand. OpenBack’s teams are based in Dublin, Ireland and Mountain View, California, USA.

OpenBack

FoneSense is the world's leading mobile marketing platform which turns the smartphone into an audio billboard.

FoneSense

Founder

Elavon Inc., is a processor of credit card transactions and a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp. Elavon offers merchant processing in more than 30 countries and supports the payment needs of more than 1,000,000 merchant locations across the globe. Elavon is the 4th largest U.S. credit card processor and is a top 6 acquirer in the European marketplace

Elavon, Inc.

Senior Java Developer

Developed and maintained a product from start to finish, this included a full working system end to end. It was developed on Windows Azure Cloud infrastructure incorporating a number of 3rd parties API's and web services. 

I built and lead an agile team of 10+ people during the various development phases of the project – overseeing all stages and resources to a successful handover and delivered all milestones on time.

Global Business Register Ltd

Team Lead /Senior Software Developer

Developed a client for the CabbageTexter project for Android.
This application has 100’s of thousands of downloads in Ireland alone, with over 60,000 daily active users.

Cabbage Lite

Developer

Adopting a Mobile TV Customer Care system to integrate into existing systems while also meeting the customer's requirements. This included a full working system, from front end (Hebrew presentation) to backend, based on a RedHat Enterprise Server and Solaris operating system.

Ericsson

Customer Adaptations Systems Integrator

Worked in R&D on the latest messaging technologies while also working on IMIS & Zimbie Messenger, which allowed end users to host and write their own instant messaging bots by simple wizard. Zimbie Messenger also having the ability of being used as a normal instant messaging client for XMPP & MSNP.

Christian Ryder