Conor Shields — Software Engineer

Toolkit

Tech Stack

TypeScript Node.js Python Java JavaScript

AWS CDK Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB Aurora EventBridge Step Functions SQS Route53 IAM

Datadog GitHub Actions Docker CI/CD Pipelines

Event-Driven Architecture Serverless RESTful APIs Microservices TDD

Career

June 2023 — Present EF Education First, London

Designed and built RESTful APIs powering internal platforms and third-party integrations
Architected CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, standardising testing, linting, and multi-environment deployment gates
Built backend infrastructure for an enterprise agentic AI platform using Amazon Bedrock and Claude
Designed high-throughput event-driven microservices processing 20,000+ events/hour via AWS EventBridge, SQS, and Step Functions
Engineered complex state machines and workflow orchestrators for long-running async processes
Led observability migration from Elasticsearch to Datadog with custom log forwarders and real-time alerting

May 2021 — June 2023 EF Education First, London

Developed an isolated cloud account identity utility with React frontend and serverless backend (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB)
Built Python automation scripts for virtual resource patching and DNS migration into AWS Route53

Jan 2019 — Aug 2019 Workday, Dublin

Built backend services in an agile, test-driven environment contributing to continuous delivery pipelines
Paired and mob programming to optimise delivery and isolate performance bottlenecks

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