Anthony J Carroll
Software engineer and technical lead with over 12 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, full-stack web development, and industrial automation
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Software engineer and technical lead with over 12 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, full-stack web development, and industrial automation. Experienced in designing, building, and deploying reliable systems, including enterprise multi-tenant SaaS applications, custom cloud orchestration tools, and computer-vision sorting platforms. Combines industrial OT/IT systems experience (MES, OPC-UA, historians) with modern cloud deployment practices (AWS, CI/CD, Docker) and web development frameworks.
Focused on automating operations and improving workflow efficiency with clean, maintainable code.
Experience
Technical Lead at Ever.Ag (Orbis MES) (2024-11 – Present)
- Lead the technical delivery of enterprise MES projects for food & beverage manufacturers, coordinating with multiple vendors to guarantee seamless IT/OT system integration.
- Design and refine tailored MES configurations, collaborating directly with clients and internal developers to optimize system reliability and performance.
Technical Delivery Engineer / Software Engineer at Orbis MES (acquired by Ever.Ag) (2023-06 – 2024-11)
- Configured and optimized complex setups across OT and IT network environments, developing scripts in SQL-PL/T-SQL and custom C# service integrations.
- Integrated process historians (IP21/Aspen InfoPlus.21) and configured OPC-UA pass-through connections for SCADA and MES systems.
- Worked with legacy protocols (TiWay, Modbus) alongside modern software configurations.
Software Engineer at MasterLink LTD (2021-04 – 2023-06)
- Maintained and enhanced multiple in-house applications for warehousing operations, supporting interconnected systems.
- Built and deployed three production systems, including a diagnostic dashboard that integrated with a legacy Oracle c12 warehouse management system.
- Implemented custom database tools and interfaces to solve operational bottlenecks across multiple sites.
- Coordinated development tasks using Jira in a three-person team to update legacy codebases.
Software Engineer at Self-Employed / WriteTheCode (2018-01 – 2021-04)
- Delivered full-stack systems across.NET, Node.js, and Linux server environments for multiple clients.
- Migrated a production system for Alpha Wireless from a Docker-based setup to bare-metal CentOS 7 to resolve container performance inefficiencies, successfully redeploying MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, and SSL with no data loss.
- Designed a no-code software generation tool (VB.NET / C#.NET Core 5 / SQL Server) that automatically produced database tables, API endpoints, and OpenAPI documentation from JSON markup.
- Accepted into Enterprise Ireland's New Frontiers Programme (Phase 1), validating the commercial potential of the software generation platform.
Quality Specialist → Quality Manager at Alpha Wireless (2014 – 2018-01)
- Progressed from product builder to Quality Manager while self-teaching software development to automate factory processes.
- Built a VB.NET overlay application to automate PIM (Passive Intermodulation) test data capture, replacing manual paper-based recording and significantly improving productivity.
- Expanded the tooling into a fully integrated quality management system with RFID access control, barcode lookup, VNA calibration automation (GPIO/RS-488), and customer documentation generation.
- Migrated the tracking software databases from MS Access to a centralised SQL Server instance with zero production downtime.
Education
New Frontiers Programme (Phase 1) – Enterprise Ireland