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Ferdia W O'Brien

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Director of Engineering at Scorebuddy
📍 Ireland

Ferdia is the Director of Engineering at Scorebuddy, with over a decade of experience in enterprise application development and architecture. He notably led the successful migration of Scorebuddys platform to a Go-based microservices architecture. He holds a BSc in Applications Development from Waterford Institute of Technology.

Beyond his technical leadership, Ferdia is invested in people development, holding a certification in Business Coaching Skills. He is passionate about challenging default assumptions to get the best from his team and has personally mentored peer groups to help them achieve their goals.

He once designed and built a complete tournament system from scratch for a gaming start-up early in his career.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Ireland
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Engineering Leadership
Recently promoted to Director of Engineering, he is actively building out his teams and holds a certification in Business Coaching Skills.
Go Microservices
He led the strategic migration of his company's entire platform from a LAMP stack to a modern, scalable Go-based microservices architecture.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Director of Engineering
Scorebuddy
10-2022 - 2-2025
Senior Technical Architect
Scorebuddy
11-2014 - 10-2022
Senior Application Developer
Scorebuddy
1-2012 - 11-2014
Senior Web Developer
Mayfly Marketing
2-2011 - 1-2012
Web Developer
G4X Gaming LTD
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Education
2004 - 2008
BSc (Hons) Applications Development
Waterford Institute of Technology
1999 - 2004
Certificate
St Peter's College, Wexford
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