Director of Engineering, Ancestry
San Francisco, California
Development Manager and Senior software engineer @ Ancestry.com From March 2011 to March 2015 (4 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Software Engineer @ Ancestry.com From July 2010 to March 2011 (9 months) Director of Engineering @ Ancestry.com Servant leader, helping coach and lead 6 teams in San Francisco, Lehi, Ukraine and India.Partnered with Product, Marketing,...
Development Manager and Senior software engineer @ Ancestry.com From March 2011 to March 2015 (4 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Software Engineer @ Ancestry.com From July 2010 to March 2011 (9 months) Director of Engineering @ Ancestry.com Servant leader, helping coach and lead 6 teams in San Francisco, Lehi, Ukraine and India.Partnered with Product, Marketing, Operations and Engineering stakeholders to support Core site initiatives for Ancestry.com. Responsible for seeding our Dublin, Ireland office with a team of Engineers. This involved being on-site in Dublin for 2 years and involved partnering with local recruiters to hire top talent as well as mentoring and coaching our engineers and integrating them with our US based engineering organization.Ancestry.com is the world's largest online resource for family history.Lead multiple teams during my tenure at Ancestry. Responsibilities include leading and mentoring a team of Developers, recruiting new team members, architecting and implementing new platform initiatives.Manage teams in multiple locations; Lviv Ukraine, Lehi Utah, Chennai, India and San Francisco California.Multiple product initiatives including:Lead multiple cross functional teams to implement and launch Ancestry DNA traits.Lead a team implementing high scale Algorithms utilizing our DNA and family tree database which power some of our key customer facing features.Lead a team implementing visualizations and reports on top of customer genetic DNA profile.Part of the leadership team responsible for planning cloud based migrations of key infrastructure with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and Azure. San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Software Architect @ myWebRoom myWebRoom.com is a visual place where you can access your favorite websites, discover new content, connect with friends, and interact with the products you love - all from one beautiful interface.Migrated client side application to a React/Flux SPA architecture. Architected an article card automation service which generates 1000s of article cards an hour from multiple 3rd party sources utilizing a RabbitMQ pattern with Node.js and deployable through Heroku.Mentored the myWebRoom engineering team on various architecture patterns and practices.Acted as an agile coach and scrum master for the engineering team. From March 2015 to August 2015 (6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaTechnical Engineering Director @ Ancestry.com Partnered with Product, Marketing, Operations and Engineering stakeholders to support Core site initiatives for Ancestry.com. Responsible for seeding our Dublin, Ireland office with a team of Engineers. This involved being on-site in Dublin for 2 years and involved partnering with local recruiters to hire top talent as well as mentoring and coaching our engineers and integrating them with our US based engineering organization.Lead multiple teams during my tenure at Ancestry.com. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring a team of Developers, recruiting new team members, architecting and implementing new platform initiatives.Multiple product initiatives including:Cross-team, feature based localization initiatives to enable launches in Mexico and Germany.Pilot a core site user experience upgrade, taking advantage of our SOA platform and evolving technologies such as Node.js and Angular.jsA FaceBook application, which allows users to start family trees and connect with Ancestors, based upon their social network. The architecture of our home pages allowing multiple campaigns to be managed independent of engineering resources via CMS and adobe test and target. A new user on-boarding wizard, which enabled new users to discover Ancestors with the goal of increasing subscriber conversion rates.Technology has included; Node.js. Angular.js, Express, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, REST, Web API, Ruby on rails, FaceBook graph API, Node.JS, JQuery and JSON.Delivery has been achieved using agile patterns such as Scrum and continuous delivery techniques in a high scale, high performing environment. From November 2013 to March 2015 (1 year 5 months) San Francisco, USADevelopment Manager and Senior Software Engineer @ Vertigo Software Dual role with the responsibility for the development and mentoring of a team of core software engineers as well as working on projects as a senior software engineer.Lead a team of 7 tasked with implementing a permitting application for the Bay area air quality management district utilizing an MVC platform reducing the time for organizations to apply and obtain permits for air polluting equipment.Managed multiple teams during the implementation of the Hard Rock interactive platform, which powers the interactive guest experience within Hard Rock properties across the globe on various touch screen technologies.Key developer on the award winning HardRock memorabilia web site which was featured during the Mix08 keynoteManaged teams and an active developer on several iterations of Windowsmarketplace.com for Microsoft. From July 2007 to June 2010 (3 years) Software Engineer @ Vertigo Software Software Engineer specializing in Microsoft .Net based applications.Successfully developed multiple features on Windowsmarketplace.com for Microsoft.Helped pioneer Microsoft's early ESD Digital locker web site Beta.Integrated technologies such as SharePoint, InfoPath and Excel into an ASP.NET project management site for a leading software company.Implemented role based dashboards for a Project Planning Application.Lead the test and quality assurance effort for a Project Planning Application. From November 2004 to July 2007 (2 years 9 months) Web Developer @ OSIsoft Design and Developed a new, dynamic corporate Web Site and support portal with download management incorporating ASP.NET technologies and MS SQL Server 2000.Implement SharePoint Portal server 2003 company wide.Re-Architect training web site registration process.Maintain www.osisoft.com, support.osisoft.com leveraging the RedDot Content Management system and ASP.NET technologies.Localization of French based training content on training.osisoft.com and Canadian corporate site. Travel throughout the US and Europe to provide Web Content Management and SharePoint Portal Server training. From 2002 to 2004 (2 years) Web Developer @ Universities UK Design and develop an in-house CRM database with a web browser front end.Migrate and upgrade data store from MS SQL 7.0 to MS SQL 2000.Update and maintain Universities UK existing web presence – www.universitiesuk.ac.ukDevelop and implement Content Management facilities for the web sitePrototype an extranet based document management solution. From 2001 to 2002 (1 year) Web Developer @ paradigm europe Developed and maintained client web sites utilizing e-commerce leading to an increase in online revenue.Localized CMS product for European usage.Implemented affiliate schemes and banner management software for partners. From 2000 to 2001 (1 year) Web Developer @ Imark Communications Designed, developed and implemented a dynamic web presence for Imarks 16+ annual events.Established an e-commerce based registration module at a time when paper based registrations were the status quo.Created member extranet enabling event clients to manage their online profile and submit paperwork online at a time when expensive paper based packages were sent to clients. From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) Junior Analyst @ LloydsTsb Developed the banks 1st online training modules. At the time training modules were typically delivered via CD-ROMResearched emerging software and report back on potential usageGained valuable experience working for 1 of the UK’s leading financial institutions. From 1997 to 1998 (1 year)
Ancestry.com
Development Manager and Senior software engineer
March 2011 to March 2015
San Francisco Bay Area
Ancestry.com
Senior Software Engineer
July 2010 to March 2011
Ancestry.com
Director of Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area
myWebRoom
Senior Software Architect
March 2015 to August 2015
San Francisco Bay Area
Ancestry.com
Technical Engineering Director
November 2013 to March 2015
San Francisco, USA
Vertigo Software
Development Manager and Senior Software Engineer
July 2007 to June 2010
Vertigo Software
Software Engineer
November 2004 to July 2007
OSIsoft
Web Developer
2002 to 2004
Universities UK
Web Developer
2001 to 2002
paradigm europe
Web Developer
2000 to 2001
Imark Communications
Web Developer
1999 to 2001
LloydsTsb
Junior Analyst
1997 to 1998
What company does Liam Molloy work for?
Liam Molloy works for Ancestry.com
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Liam Molloy is Development Manager and Senior software engineer
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