Clodagh McCarthy Luddy

Clodagh McCarthy Luddy has a diverse work experience in the field of software engineering and technology.

Clodagh is currently working at DuckDuckGo as the Director of Backend Engineering, a position they started in September 2022.

From 2018 to 2022, Clodagh founded Sharehold, a company focused on securely storing personal data. As the CTO of Sharehold, they achieved offers from top international accelerator programs and secured government research grants and paid contracts for research in private key management. Clodagh also managed a remote team of three software engineers and external contractors.

Prior to that, from 2016 to 2018, they worked at Spotify. First, they held the position of Software Engineering Team Lead, where they successfully advocated for the creation of a search platform team and led them in modularizing critical services for better collaboration. Clodagh also introduced disaster recovery drills and chaos engineering to improve service resilience. Before that, they served as a Senior Software Engineer at Spotify, developing key features and participating in an on-call rotation for globally available services.

In 2013, Clodagh worked at Soundwave as a Software Engineer, where they built an award-winning app that gained 1.5 million downloads and was later acquired by Spotify. During their time at Soundwave, they had the roles of Backend DevOps Engineer, iOS Engineer, and Business Insight Data Analyst, depending on the project's requirements.

In addition, they worked as a Freelance Software Engineer in 2013, building minimum viable products for two startups. One of them, Clever Campus, aimed to improve the connection between students, universities, and nearby businesses. Clodagh played a crucial role by implementing server and data layer infrastructure, as well as managing the project and team using Kanban.

Finally, in 2012, they briefly worked at Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer in Test.

Overall, Clodagh McCarthy Luddy has gained significant experience in leadership roles, developing critical features, managing teams, implementing server infrastructure, and conducting research in the field of software engineering and technology.

Clodagh McCarthy Luddy completed their Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, and Modern Irish from Trinity College Dublin. Clodagh attended the college from the year 2009 to 2013. Prior to that, they attended St. Andrews College, Booterstown from 2001 to 2007. The exact degree and field of study from St. Andrews College are not specified.