Richard Kavanagh

Experience

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  Dublin City University

  Sept 2012 - May 2013

  Programming Lab Tutor

  • Assisted first-year students during programming labs and tutorials• Graded student assignments and lab work

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  Cellusys

  Apr 2014 - Sept 2014

  Intern Software Developer

  • Developed RESTful web services in Java & Dropwizard for telecom projects• Designed single-page applications with AngularJS• Updated the CI build-pipeline to include Gradle, Jenkins & SonarQube

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  IBM

  Jun 2015 - Jun 2016

  Graduate Software Developer

  • Implemented a greenfield SaaS Web App with Django, RabbitMQ and Celery• Added JavaScript test suites for front end products and integrated results into the project build and deploy cycles

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  Kantar Media

  Jun 2016 - Aug 2017

  Associate Software Developer

  • Provided media monitoring and brand reputation analysis with Java 8 & Clojure• Provided ongoing support for legacy PHP apps and systems• Managed the on-site data center operations and maintenance

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  IBM

  Sept 2018 - now

  • SME for CIS & STIG benchmark scanning with Tenable.SC & Nessus agents• Managed infrastructure compliance & configuration with Ansible Automation Platform• Configured Crowdstrike Spotlight to identify high severity vulnerabilities across cloud environments • Operated a vulnerability scanning solution with Tenable.SC• Led an effort to automate the deployment of EDR clients such as CrowdStrike and CarbonBlack• Monitored system availability and metrics with New-Relic, PagerDuty and SOC alerting • Managed multiple Bigfix infrastructure instances supporting 250K+ endpoints• Developed Bigfix scripts to deploy SIEM, vuln scanning, ID management and 2FA software• Assisted CISO in coordinating responses to new exploits and patches

  • DevOps Engineer

    Jun 2022 - now

  • Junior DevOps Engineer

    Jul 2020 - Jun 2022

  • Associate DevOps Engineer

    Sept 2018 - Jun 2020