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Domhnall McKinney

@domhnallmckinney

AWS serverless engineer at Chakray who designed a media platform handling over 2 million requests per day.

United Kingdom
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At Chakray, I design and deliver AWS serverless systems for client teams, taking work from discovery and architecture through implementation, production readiness and handover. For a global social media platform, I designed and owned a production media service handling more than 2 million requests per day.

I also designed its global entry and media-delivery paths, and built in content moderation, recovery and observability. Staged load tests reached approximately 2,500 requests per second on the gated-access path, and I developed multilingual full-text, semantic and hybrid search with sub-100 ms query performance.

For a securities brokerage platform spanning more than 30 services, I delivered event-driven trading and settlement workflows. I integrated FIX 4.4 and implemented order reservations and conditional updates to help protect against overspending, overselling and stale execution reports.

Outside client work, I founded and built Zlot.ai, a cross-platform AI creative product that turns prompts into rendered videos. Its workflow combines structured Bedrock scripts and storyboards, speech and transcription, multi-provider image and video generation, resumable jobs and Remotion Lambda rendering.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

SP

Software Engineer

SMS Plc

Jul 2022 - Sep 2023 (1 year 2 months)

Built AWS serverless integrations with CDK, Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS and SQS for SMETS2 smart-meter communications through the UK Data Communications Company network. Delivered onboarding integrations and maintained the established Java and Spring Boot platform.

AA

Financial Software Developer

AquaQ Analytics

Aug 2021 - Jul 2022 (11 months)

Developed Java and Spring Boot APIs for an internal trading and client-management platform used daily by more than 1,000 employees at a global financial institution. Designed, documented, tested and maintained containerised microservices with Docker and GitLab CI/CD.

Zlot.ai logoZL

Founder and Engineer

Zlot.ai

Designed and built a cross-platform generative-AI product for iOS, Android and web that turns prompts into rendered shorts. Engineered a mobile-first video editor and built the AWS serverless backend with CDK, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, Cognito and WebSockets.

OF

Maintainer and Engineer

OpenCode Developer Workflow Framework

Designed and maintained an OpenCode 2 workflow framework with 8 specialist agents, 13 command workflows and 52 reusable skills supporting code review, security remediation, research, documentation and engineering integrations. Implemented role-specific model selection and least-privilege tool controls.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Liverpool John Moores University logoLU

Liverpool John Moores University

BSc (Hons), Computer Science

2019 - 2022

Grade: First Class Honours

BSc (Hons) Computer Science with First Class Honours from Liverpool John Moores University, 2019–2022.

NC

North West Regional College

BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma, Information Technology

2017 - 2019

Grade: Distinction*, Distinction*, Distinction

BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Information Technology from North West Regional College, 2017–2019, with grades Distinction*, Distinction*, Distinction.

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