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Hi, I’m Joseph O’Deorain. I’m a Platform and Performance Engineer with over fifteen years of experience supporting business-critical applications and infrastructure across enterprise banking and insurance environments. I specialize in platform reliability, observability, automation, and infrastructure management across Windows, Linux, and cloud platforms.
I’ve led migrations to modern observability stacks, built automated CI/CD pipelines, and implemented proactive monitoring and incident response. I’m passionate about collaborating with development and operations teams to reduce lead times and costs while improving service quality.
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Work Experience
Performance Engineer at Expleo Belfast
December 1, 2017 - December 1, 2017Led the migration of locally hosted applications to multi-region data-center setups, delivering year-on-year cost savings for a Fortune 500 insurer. Implemented monthly performance regression tests to quantify the impact of configuration changes and introduced Splunk monitoring and alerting in production, reducing mean time to resolve defects from days to under an hour. Built and evolved CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure to accelerate testing and deployment, fostering collaboration across teams and delivering measurable performance improvements.
Performance Engineer at Expleo Belfast
September 1, 2024 - September 1, 2024Developed a fully automated cloud-based infrastructure, testing and observability solution using AWS, Terraform and Grafana Cloud, reducing per-worker node setup time from one hour to three minutes. Designed and implemented Dynatrace and Grafana observability to support migration to a new API gateway, achieving a 40% reduction in infrastructure cost. Executed performance assessments to ensure a client’s CRM application and underlying infra could support up to 1.5x current peak production load. Implemented a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline, cutting the time to configure and execute performance tests from two hours to 10 minutes.
Platform Engineer
October 1, 2024 - PresentLed the migration of a fully automated cloud-based infrastructure, testing and observability solution using AWS, Terraform and Grafana Cloud; implemented monitoring and alerting across production systems to enable rapid incident detection and resolution; demonstrated strong platform reliability across Windows, Linux, and cloud environments.
Performance Engineer / Platform Engineer at AlterSIS Performance Lab
April 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024Led the migration of a performance test suite from LoadRunner to JMeter, reducing licensing costs by 20%. Implemented automated CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling to support production and testing activities.
Test Consultant / Platform Engineer at AlterSIS Performance Lab
September 1, 2020 - April 1, 2023Led the migration of locally hosted applications in multiple locations to three regional data centers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, resulting in year-on-year cost savings for a Fortune 500 global insurance company. Implemented monthly performance regression tests, ensuring prompt visibility of performance issues following code changes, and reduced test preparation time from three days to one day.
Platform Engineer at Expleo Belfast
January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2017Led the migration of locally hosted applications across multiple locations to three regional data centers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia; implemented a fully automated cloud-based infrastructure, testing, and observability solution using AWS, Terraform and Grafana Cloud; reduced infrastructure setup time from hours to minutes.
Education
BEng (Hons) Computer Games Development (DIS) at Ulster University
January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2010Qualifications
Neotys Certified Professional for NeoLoad
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025CI/CD with Jenkins & GitHub Actions
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025Grafana / Prometheus Observability Specialist
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025NeoLoad Core Certified Professional for NeoLoad
January 11, 2030 - April 22, 2026Industry Experience
Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services
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