Published by Shane O'Sullivan
I am a software engineer and manager from Ireland. I spent 7 years working in Ireland from 2003 – 2010, then ten years in Silicon Valley from 2010 to 2020.
In California I spent about 6.5 years at Facebook Engineering, the last three of which I was an engineering manager in the Ads organisation focusing on customer facing products for creating and managing ads.
At Stripe I built the Developer Productivity organisation, with teams that were responsible for the use of the Ruby language, testing infrastructure, documentation, developer tooling (e.g. IDE integrations) and more.
At Promise, I was Head of Engineering from 2018 – 2020, responsible for building the first few iterations of our products, hiring for all product roles, meeting with clients and investors, and anything else needed to get a tiny startup bootstrapped and successful.
Now I’m back in Ireland, working on my next company. Coming soon (as of early 2021!).
This blog contains my various musings on all things technical/interesting on the interweb and beyond.
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I just happened on your site when searching for reviews of Register365 (your post relating to them is interesting and helpful).
I have your Palm Pre app, Irish Rain, installed on my phone for a while now. Just thought I’d send a quick message to say how much I like it. I use it a lot.
I have given it 5 stars on the App Catalog, now that you have changed Fahrenheit to Celsius (what were you thinking anyway when using Fahrenheit for Ireland? LOL) Keep up the good work.
Hi PalmPreUser,
I’m glad you like it, thanks for the good review. To be honest, it was in Farenheit because that’s the default given by Yahoo’s Weather service. I considered the extra weather information to be more or less not the point of the app, so didn’t put much time into it initially – I just wanted to get the rainfall stuff right.
It was easily fixed, but I didn’t have the time until recently, as I’m working on some other cool stuff.
You should try out my other apps too. Click the “More” option in the app menu.
Shane
wow. Fast reply! 🙂
Nice apps. I do hope Palm speed up things, so Europeans can buy apps from their catalog. I’m sure you agree.
I absolutely agree 😉 However, three of my apps are free at the moment, including CelText for sending free texts in Ireland. So it’s well worth grabbing.
Hi,
why the restriction to IE/UK?
In the summer I spent four weeks in your beautiful country again, and found it extremely frustrating that I was barred from your app just because my Pre was activated in Germany.
Regards,
Jochen
Hi Joechen,
I never thought that anyone outside the islands would be interested – obviously I never considered your use case.
I’ll change it to be available worldwide. The one thing that annoys me is when people review it saying “Why doesn’t it show my country?”, but I guess I can put up with that.
Great App Shane. Now I know when I’m going to get dumped on and when its safe to plan anything outdoors. You can predict when the downpour will hit the part of the country I’m in.
John