Shane Moloney

Software Developer

Location: EU

Experience

Full Stack Developer

Rhebo · Full-time
Oct 2021 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Germany

  • Developed Threat Detection Software for IoT and OT industries
  • Delivered improvements on memory and CPU utilization in resource-constrained IoT embedded systems through optimization of lightweight messaging protocols
  • Delivered Rust prototypes in anomaly detection, significantly improving threat visibility for industrial OT networks
  • Improved Rust based real-time protocol detection, serialization, and cross service notifications in low latency environments, resulting in more reliable synchronicity across distributed components
  • Hardened core product security by identifying and remediating critical vulnerabilities
  • Served as technical liaison with a multinational partner, supporting integration of the OT security platform into their IIoT environment
  • Introduced remote tooling and collaboration workflows for a distributed team, accelerating on-boarding and improving productivity across a team of developers
  • Contributed to notification systems for real-time OT network monitoring and anomaly detection

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Startup CTO

Gridlock
Sep 2020 – Jul 2021 · 11 mos · Remote

Achievements:

  • Successful release of Gridlock’s security focused decentralized wallet

How:

  • Created strategic plans and company timelines
  • Engaged with business leaders and clients developing partnerships and leads
  • Engaged and supported UX/UI team to perfect the user experience
  • Introduced modern agile and lean development methodologies and best practices
  • Engaged with System Architect on creating module and system design
  • Led development on the core product and set task prioritization
  • Expanded development team

Day-to-day:

  • Regular engagement with clients and C-level
  • Hiring and interviews
  • Product development
  • Task prioritization
  • SCRUM meetings
  • Feedback and 1:1 meetings with development team members
  • Software development (UX, Rust, DevOps)
  • Weekly releases and product iterations
  • Product promotion and iteration

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Software Developer

General Motors
Jul 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Limerick Metropolitan Area

  • Developed Mainframe Applications using PL/1, COBOL and SQL code.
  • Experience with APIs for sending HTTP requests between frontend and backend.
  • Experience with databases. Regular interaction with IMS and DB2 data.

Responsibilities:

  • Communicate effectively with a positive and confident attitude
  • Participate in design and code reviews
  • Help design and develop quality code in a timely manner
  • Worked with a close-knit team of developers to deliver on set deadlines in a timely manner.

Skills

Technical
Rust, Full Stack Development, IoT/OT Cybersecurity, Threat Detection, Anomaly Detection, Embedded Systems Optimization, Real-time Systems, Low-latency Networking, Protocol Development, Security Hardening, REST APIs, Network Security, Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, COBOL, PL/1, SQL, IMS, DB2, Git, Agile, Docker, DevOps, UX/UI collaboration

Leadership & Other
Team Leadership, Hiring, Agile/SCRUM Methodologies, Strategic Planning, Client Engagement, Cross-functional Collaboration, Remote Team Workflows

Languages
English (Native), German

Education

Postgraduate Diploma in Software Development (1st Class Honours)
University of Limerick, Ireland — 2018–2019
Awards: Letter of Congratulations (July 2019), 3rd Place – Cinco Adventure Game (2018)

Bachelor of Arts (Music) (2nd Class Honours)
University College Cork, Ireland — 2012–2015

Piano Performance Diploma
University of West London, UK — 2011–2012

Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT1)
Cambridge University

Projects

FestivalGrade – Festival Rating Website

Angular + PostgreSQL | March 2025 – May 2025

Fullstack festival rating platform with user reviews, Keycloak authentication, and content management features. Deployed on Hetzner VPS.

AI Detector – Open Source AI Email Detector

Rust | May 2025 – June 2025

Open-source email classification tool featuring a KNN detection engine, REST API backend, and Rust Hypertext server-side frontend. Containerized with Docker and deployed on Hetzner Linux infrastructure.

Technical Content Creation

YouTube – @shanemoloney | May 2021 – June 2026

Created coding tutorials and technical guides on modern technologies with 10,000+ views. Hosted live events with renowned developers such as Herbert Wolverson.

TommyWhelan.com Website

Freelance | January 2025 – March 2025

Responsive website deployed with Cloudflare hosting. Digitisation and publishing of archival audio content for public access.