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Hi!

My name is Ronan and I'm IT architect & consultant by trade, living & working in Dublin, Ireland. I've worked in various industries in my career to date, from local & central government, financial services including general & life insurance, retail banking & pensions, and aviation and marketing tech, across Ireland, the UK, Europe, North America & the the Middle East.

While I've worked with lots of different technology stacks and platforms, I'm most at home with Java/JEE and a big fan of Spring, which forms the basis of the Booker project. I've been using Spring since version 1.2.6 (from 2006 ) and have had the opportunity to use most projects from the Spring portfolio in my professional career. I even tried Spring.NET, anyone remember that?

Past projects

Here's some examples of where I've used the Spring portfolio of products over the past 11 years. In each of these I was either lead developer/architect or consulting on technology selection.

  • General insurance website:
    • Webflow, Security, Remoting with Hessian/Burlap, iBatis, Castor
  • Online banking website:
    • Security, Webflow, Core, JMS
  • Retail bank BPM intranet portal:
    • MVC, Core
  • Airline integration services tier:
    • Data, REST, Security, WS, Batch, Integration, Boot