Dave O'Connor
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VP of Engineering
County Dublin, Ireland
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VP of EngineeringAstronomerJun 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)Taking care of Engineering Standards, Product Lifecycle, Reliability, Platform and anything else I can be tricked into doing.- CFreelance TechnologistCoServant SystemsJan 2023 - Jun 2025 (2 years 6 months)Working with busy teams and leaders that do work that's for humans, and make work that's for machines. Organisational and high-level technical consulting for Engineering teams of all shapes and types.
- VP of EngineeringTwilioJan 2022 - Jan 2023 (1 year 1 month)Led production engineering for Twilio's global communications infrastructure built on AWS/Kubernetes.
Directed the development and planning for the rollout of Kubernetes infrastructure across Twilio, and modernization of the existing service catalog.
Drove SLO and data-driven approaches to business outcomes. Managed SaaS operational budgets and strategy. Led a globally distributed team of 100+ SWEs, SREs and Incident Commanders. - Sr. Director Of EngineeringElasticJun 2021 - Jul 2022 (1 year 2 months)Led global reliability for Elastic Cloud, a multi-cloud network across 40+ locations and providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle). Managed a globally distributed, 24/7 remote team across multiple time zones. Directed staffing strategy and engineering planning.
- Engineering Director, SRE | Head of Engineering, Google IrelandGoogleOct 2016 - Apr 2021 (4 years 7 months)Google's global SRE lead for Storage & Databases. This includes things like Bigtable, GCS, Cloud SQL, Colossus, Spanner, Chubby, and Future Things.
Site Lead for Engineering in Dublin, 400+ SWEs, SREs, Network Engineers and friends, doing a really bad job at being a brass plate.
We wrote the book on SRE: https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html
From the Irish Times, July 2018: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/ - Site Reliability ManagerGoogleJul 2004 - Oct 2016 (12 years 4 months)I was the first Site Reliability Engineer to be hired outside the USA for Google. Since then, I have helped build the team to over 200 people in Dublin, and have driven several large technical programs, as well as leading a team of engineers and managers responsible for the continued function of products such as GMail, Google Apps, Google Accounts, Google Reader and Google Analytics.
I led the organisation in Dublin that manages a significant part of Google's shared storage and backup infrastructure (such as Bigtable, Colossus and Spanner) as well as our Network SRE group (we have a.....big network).
I've done some writing and advocacy work internally around team operations, interrupt management, and generally how to r - Systems AdministratorVoxpilot LtdApr 2002 - Jun 2004 (2 years 3 months)Principal systems administrator for a VSP spanning all of Europe. Provided first-line production support to an inhouse application and many Text-to-speech and Voice Recog systems. Involved in network and systems design and implementation at all stages. Supported datacenter presences in Dublin, London, Monaco and Switzerland.
- ASoftware EngineerAOL Time WarnerFeb 1999 - Sep 1999 (8 months)Internship, developing a WAP (like the mobile web, except in a museum) email client for AOL subscribers, as well as capacity planning for WAP dialin systems. Work was deployed in the UK and Brazil.
- Software EngineerNetscape CommunicationsJun 1998 - Sep 1998 (4 months)Localisation tools engineer for Netcenter site.
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- B.Sc, Computer ApplicationsDublin City UniversityJan 1997 - Jan 2001 (4 years 1 month)
- Professional Diploma in Coaching and MentoringKingstown College
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