Brandon Dooley

Co-Founder & Software Engineering Manager @ Bounce Insights



Website Last Updated - 24th January 2023

Experience

Co-Founder & Software Engineering Manager

Bounce Insights

Bounce Insights is a consumer insights platform that makes it incredibly easy for companies to get accurate and accessible consumer feedback & insights from their desired target audience. Bounce Insights is a mobile-first solution connecting brands & companies with their exact target market, empowering them to co-create their products alongside the people who matter most. Bounce allows clients to create any question they want, select their exact target market, and publish it to our network of respondents, who are then incentivised for their feedback.

Jan 2019 - Current

Freelance Web Developer

Firstaff Personnel Consultants Ltd.
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020

Software Engineer Intern

xSellco

xSellco build and develop CRM and E-Commerce platorms & tools that allow users integrate all of their sales channels, customer support, feedback and pricing into one platform.

Operated mainly in a Dev-Ops oriented role working alongside the companies Dev-Ops engineer and reporting to the CTO. Transformed previous manual application deployment strategy to to a fully CI/CD strategy using GitHub, Jenkins and AWS CodeDeploy to perform an in-place continuous deployment on a staging and then production level. Integrating the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) stack with AWS to pull in custom metrics to AWS CloudWatch and design custom alarms and notifications surrounding these metrics. Modelling current cloud infrastructure & implementing new cloud infrastructure in Terraform. Using Puppet to define how various different types of servers should be provisioned.

Jul 2018 - Dec 2019

Analyst - Healthcare Sector

Trinity Student Managed Fund

Working as part of a team of analysts within the Healthcare sector of the fund. Involves motoring the funds current holdings within the healthcare/bio pharmaceutical sector. Keeping both the senior analyst and sector manager up to date on current stocks and market positions. Also involves researching new prospective holdings to potentially be pitched as a buy option to the Executive Committee.

Mar 2017 - Jun 2018

Waiter & Barman

Old Street Restaurant, Malahide

Jun 2018 - Jun 2019

Mar 2017 - Jun 2018

Co-Founder

Beauty Quay

Beauty Quay was a Cosmetics & Beauty Products Online Retailer dedicated to providing new and top of the range cosmetic products.

Handling the establishment of the company and all relevant legal proceedings. Setting up and developing a fully integrated e-commerce platform, as well as supporting social media platforms. Maintaining and developing upon these platforms. Running advertisement campaigns through various services, mainly Facebook Ad's and Google Ad's.

Feb 2017 - Sep 2017

Waiter

Coast Restaurant, Malahide

Jul 2016 - Mar 2017

Nov 2013 - Sep 2015

Work Experience

Davy Stockbrokers

Working within several departments such as finance, research, private clients, equity trading, corporate trading and HR. Assisting employees with duties such as filing and organizing documents for scanning. Assisting a senior researcher within the company on a project conducting research into one of the top mining firms in the world. This entailed researching the company’s quarterly and annual results, finding specific data e.g production values, and creating a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in order for the senior researcher to gain a vivid overlook on the company’s performance for potential future investors.

Sep 2013

Recruiter

Firstaff Personnel Consultants

Evaluating job specifications for Senior Consultants and Managing Director. Teaching employees on how to use Boolean search methods. Searching for CV’s that fitted job specifications on monster, LinkedIn and Google. Contacting candidates via Phone and E-mail. Forwarding potential candidates through to Senior Consultants and Managing Director. Logging candidates into the companies database (Voyager) and clients databases.

Jun 2013 - Sep 2013

Creations

Bounce Insights

Web Dashboard & Mobile App
Bounce Insights is a two sided platform whereby clients create & publish surveys on our Web Dashboard which are then distributed to their target audience to answer within our Mobile App.

Languages: ReactJS, React Native, NodeJS

2019-Current

Education

Trinity College DUblin

Bachelor of Computer Science
First Year Results

  • First Class Honors

Second Year Results

  • First Class Honors

Third Year Results

  • Semester One - First Class Honors
  • Semester Two - First Class Honors

Fourth Year Results

  • Semester One - First Class Honors
  • Semester Two - First Class Honors

Final Graduating Grade

  • B.A. (Mod) Computer Science - First Class Honors

2016 - 2020

Malahide Community School

Leaving Certificate

540 points

2010 - 2016

Dublin City University (DCU)

Centre for Talented Youth Ireland (CTYI)

Completed outside of Primary School on Saturday mornings.

Modules taken include:

  • Architecture
  • Engineering
  • Marine Biology
  • Computer Applications
  • Creative Writing
  • Forensic Science
  • Experimental Physics
2005 - 2011

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Javascript, ReactJS, React Native, NodeJS, Python, PHP, C, HTML, CSS, Java, Bash, Swift, Haskell
  • AWS Technologies: EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CodeDeploy, Route53, RDS, VPC, IAM, EFS, ElastiCache, VPC, ApiGateway, ElasticSearch Service
  • Operating Systems: Linux, Mac, Windows, CentOS/RHEL
  • WebServer Technologies: Apache, Nginx
  • Datastores: MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, Memcached, Firestore
  • DevOps Tools: Jenkins, TravisCI, Docker, Puppet, Chef, Vagrant, Terraform, AWS CodeDeploy , Logstash, Kibana
  • ELK Stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana


Awards & Certifications

  • Trinity Book Award (First Class Honors) - 2020
  • Trinity Book Award (First Class Honors) - 2019
  • Trinity Book Award (First Class Honors) - 2018
  • Trinity Book Award (First Class Honors) - 2017
  • Certificate of Achievement for Academic Excellence - Malahide Community School