Greg Hanley
Software Engineering Manager
Greystones, Co. Wicklow
Summary
People-centered engineering leader with experience in Financial Technology, SaaS businesses and scaling world-class teams in a unicorn tech company from the ground up. Experience in engineering and leadership roles, ranging from financial model deployment and management, web development, data engineering, data warehousing and machine learning/AI-driven systems. Technically experienced as a Lead Engineer with an intimate understanding of complex problems, leveraging experience and logical problem solving skills to drive business outcomes across multiple teams concurrently. Firm believer in creating visibility for individuals and teams, ensuring success is celebrated and recognized.
Highly collaborative leader, experienced in driving technical projects and developing partnerships across the business through transparency and driving collaboration. Proven to be a self-motivated, focused individual, who thrives when working in a customer-focused environment. Forthright and clear communication style, conscious in addressing ambiguity to ensure a clear, shared understanding.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Engineering Manager - Remote
Workhuman
12.2021 - Current
- Ultimately responsible for the delivery of new products and product iterations, with an emphasis on iterative engineering for teams to ensure a consistent cadence of delivery and manageable workload.
- Management of multiple high-performing engineering teams concurrently, across a variety of technology stacks, business domains and geographical locations.
- Spearheaded the business drive towards Machine Learning, data-driven applications and AI through the development, deployment and maintenance of machine learning centered products, including a bespoke generative AI chatbot leveraging latest Cloud-hosted LLMs to surface client-specific data insights.
- Responsible for leading engineering teams in the technical design, development and deployment of a transformative client data reporting experience, directly addressing client feedback and positively driving customer NPS scores as a result. Finalist in the 2024 "Analytics & AI Awards", in the "Customer Insight Award" category.
- Leading teams in a structured manner, ensuring clear direction and scope for development within and beyond current roles, through regular 1-1s and goal setting for individuals in line with career aspirations.
- Working very closely with global senior stakeholders and partners in Product, Design, Data Platform and Architecture teams to ensure alignment with company strategy and ensuring engineering excellence in product development.
- Central figure across the wider Product Engineering department in terms of establishing best practices and continuous process improvement.
- Consistently volunteering in cross-cutting initiatives, in line with company strategy and further establishing relationships with colleagues from other departments.
- Regularly empowering Engineers through the creation of a psychologically safe environment, while ensuring accountability for the work of the teams and excellent quality of deliverables.
- Facilitator of all team ceremonies in a fully remote Agile setup.
- Projects: Moodtracker, Team Awards, NextGen Reporting, Workhuman iQ, Workhuman AI Assistant
Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead - Remote
Workhuman
05.2020 - 11.2021
- Lead Backend Python Engineer developing award winning "Voice of the Employee" survey tool on AWS Infrastructure. This involved a wide variety of areas such as development, testing, reviewing and designing for future iterations of the product in collaboration with other team members. Complex development environment with a focus on UX excellence, serving insights and product recommendations through the web application interface.
- Heavily involved in end-to-end systems architecture, successfully engineering highly maintainable, loosely coupled and testable Microservice-driven systems.
- Communicated regularly with offshore developers and senior management, assessing risk and clarifying ambiguities at the earliest stage of the project.
- Seen as an exemplar amongst peers as a figure of leadership and high-trust across multiple projects, leveraging strong communication skills through the use of explicit details, ensuring the context of each conversation was always set and correct.
Software Engineer & Team Lead
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
07.2016 - 05.2020
- Took on heightened responsibility in the absence of Senior Lead Developers. Dynamically adjusted my role and level of responsibility in the team, while concurrently providing guidance/management for more Junior Developers.
- Lead teams of developers to deliver multiple critical software products under extremely tight deadlines, including regulatory reporting requirements and business process automation, which greatly improved operational efficiency and mitigated risk.
Software Engineer Intern
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
04.2015 - 09.2015
- Developed as part of an agile development team, providing regular contributions in areas such as core development, testing, documentation, production releases and production support.
- Remained highly collaborative within both teams of developers, stakeholders and technical support groups. Effectively involved in various methodologies to ensure deliverables of the highest quality.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
National University of Ireland
Galway, Ireland 09.2012 - 05.2016
Skills
Excellent Communicator
Team Leader
Customer-Focused
Strategic Mindset
Collaborator
Coaching/Mentoring
Software Development
Python
SQL
React
JavaScript
Data Engineering & Data Warehousing
Machine Learning
Generative AI
AWS & Cloud Computing
Systems Design & Architecture
Timeline
Engineering Manager - Remote
Workhuman
12.2021 - Current
Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead - Remote
Workhuman
05.2020 - 11.2021
Software Engineer & Team Lead
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
07.2016 - 05.2020
Software Engineer Intern
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
04.2015 - 09.2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
National University of Ireland
09.2012 - 05.2016
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