Maeve McLaughlin

DevOps Platform Leader

Dublin, Ireland | 0838708706 | mclaughlin.maeve@hotmail.com​ | ​LinkedIn Profile​

Executive Summary

Strategic technical leader and architect with five years of experience at Workday building enterprise-grade continuous delivery platforms. Expert in platform modernisation, having led the migration of department-wide infrastructure to Kubernetes-native environments while supporting 100+ development teams and 2,000+ releases. Proven track record in DevSecOps leadership, financial oversight of large-scale programs, and fostering a high-performance engineering culture through mentorship and value-stream optimisation.

Core Skills

Technical Expertise

  • Languages & Frameworks: Groovy, Java, Bash, SQL, C#, ASP.NET
  • Infrastructure & DevOps: Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Helm, Ansible
  • CI/CD & Tooling: Artifactory, Bitbucket, Jira, Kafka, Security scanning, Spock Framework

Leadership Capabilities

  • Strategic Roadmap Planning
  • Cross-functional Stakeholder Management
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • Mentorship
  • Financial Compliance

Experience

Workday | DevOps Engineer | March 2021 – Present

Architecting and scaling mission-critical, self-service CI/CD pipeline supporting 10+ global teams. Improved deployment frequency and reduced delivery time by 175% through automation and introducing fast feedback loops.

Spearheading the organisational DevSecOps roadmap, integrating automated security scanning (SAST/DAST) directly into the build process. Authored a comprehensive Security Best Practices framework that standardised compliance across all engineering teams, enabling the organisation to easily stay within SLO compliance and ultimately achieve a zero vulnerability standard.

Orchestrating department-wide migrations including from legacy Docker-based Jenkins setup to a cloud-native KubeJenkins platform. Eliminated all internal jenkins maintenance costs and improved system reliability by centralising platform management and ultimately removing all hardware reliance from the devops group.

Standardising the engineering onboarding lifecycle, mentoring new hires and maintaining high-fidelity documentation that reduced "time-to-first-commit" for new joiners and focused on Collaboration and Shared Responsibility and Continuous Improvement and Learning.

Facilitating Value Stream Mapping workshops with stakeholders to identify bottlenecks, resulting in multiple improvements in lead time for changes.

  • Established an Internal Contribution Model for shared tooling, fostering a collaborative DevOps culture and accelerating feature delivery through cross-team development.
  • Extended internal contribution model across the organisation to foster collaboration and shared responsibility across the organisation. Resulting in reduced silos across the teams.

Directing the annual R&D Tax Credit technical claim process, auditing 30+ projects across 8 teams to secure greater than 2 million euros of tax relief across my tenure via meticulous documentation of engineering innovation and engagement with tax partners and revenue.

Previous Experience

  • Kerridge Commercial Systems | Dublin, Ireland DevOps Engineer | March 2018 – March 2021
  • Kerridge Commercial Systems | Dublin, Ireland Technical Support Analyst | Feb 2017 – March 2018
  • Nitec Solutions | Professional Placement Student | June 2014 – July 2015
  • Camp Nokomis | YMCA Camp Counselor | Summer 2016

Education

Queen's University Belfast
BEng Software and Electronic Systems Engineering (2012 – 2016)

Community & Leadership

  • Spelunking conference speaker
  • Future Females in Tech Mentor
  • Regular Code Plus Mentor & Speaker
  • Code First Girls Instructor
  • Bring IT Mentor