Patrick McDonnell

Patrick McDonnell - Engineering Manager at Beamery

Experience

• Engineering Manager at Beamery (May 2022 - Present)

  • Managing two teams responsible for automation, campaign-building, and communication within this HR Tech Unicorn
  • Working alongside Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to meet the needs of global enterprise clients
  • Balancing feature delivery with re-architecting the codebase as the company grew rapidly1

• Group Engineering Manager at FreeAgent (January 2020 - May 2022)

  • Directed engineering within the Accounting group, which owns cornerstone functionality in the FreeAgent app
  • Line managed Engineering Managers leading teams of engineers, for a reporting line of ~35 people1

• Senior Engineering Manager at FreeAgent (May 2019 - January 2020)

  • Managed two product delivery teams totaling 14 engineers working on key components of the FreeAgent business hub SAAS product1

• Software Engineering Manager at Findmypast (July 2017 - May 2019)

  • Led multiple cross-functional engineering teams based in Dundee, with 30 engineers across feature, platform and DevOps teams
  • Embedded team learning through specialist guilds and a learning hour, and balanced high quality with pragmatism1

Education

• The University of Stirling1

Patrick McDonnell is an experienced engineering leader with around 8 years in the leadership track. He has managed multiple teams, mentored less experienced managers, developed individual contributors, and evolved his teams at companies like Beamery, FreeAgent and Findmypast.1