Kate Mulhall
Senior Cloud Software Engineering Manager
Athenry,Galway
Summary
An award-winning and results-driven professional with 20+ years’ of experience in leading-edge international IT companies. Excellent strategic, people and technical leadership skills developed in global, dynamic, customer-focused, and open-source environments. A highly effective communicator and leader who inspires and empowers others to deliver innovative solutions from cloud to edge that scale for applications. An innovative achiever who consistently seeks excellence.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
SENIOR CLOUD SOFTWARE ENG. MGR. – CLOUD COMPUTING GROUP
Intel Corporation
1 2024 - Current
- Led an engineering team of up to 24 people (12 engineers under direct management and 10 engineers and 2 architects as part of an extended team) across 4 geographies to implement cluster orchestration capabilities within the Intel Tiber Edge Platform (ITEP) to enable enterprises to build, deploy, and scale AI applications from cloud to edge for a market opportunity of $3B.
- Turned cluster orchestration from being the weakest component in ITEP to a re-architected and stable component with CI/CD that could deploy multiple customers in a single instance, scale up from 3 to 1,000 sites per customer with 100x performance improvement
- Partnered with stakeholders to set strategy, prioritized requirements, and led planning and execution to deliver cluster orchestration releases optimized to provide intelligence at the edge for customers, including Ikea, Schneider, Adani, etc.
- Set up and implemented processes and policies at team and program level to centralise work intake, reduce 140 engineers' time spent on bugs by
- Ran monthly collaboration days to establish close engagement across teams, encourage sharing of ideas, have fun, and learn from each other
- Taught and recorded multiple Intel management and leadership training classes to train 300+ managers on how to develop a managerial mindset and get the best results from their teams
- Represented business unit within a People First initiative to analyse data using generative AI and put forward a set of recommendations to improve employee engagement during challenging times.
SNR CLOUD SOFTWARE ENG. MGR - NETWORK AND EDGE PLATFORM
Intel Corporation
03.2021 - Current
- Led an engineering team of 40 people (3 Engineering Mgrs., 27 engineers, and 10 contractors as part of an extended team across Europe) to deliver Kubernetes orchestration features across 15+ CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) projects for microservice and containerized application deployments for Telco, enterprise, and cloud use cases, and Intel silicon design wins of up to $700M/year within a $7B PaaS program.
- Received a Technology Emmy in 2023 for 'Pioneering Development' and enablement of the ecosystem in collaboration with Comcast and Harmonic to transform how television works for virtualized cable broadband.
- Implemented intelligent CPU and power management capabilities so that 20 customers could deploy in production with 3.5x energy savings and reduce cloud administrator overhead.
- Delivered keynote on 'Finding your Power to Accelerate to a Sustainable Future' at CNCF KubeCon.
CLOUD SOFTWARE ENG. MGR. - NETWORK AND EDGE PLATFORM
Intel Corporation
01.2015 - 01.2021
- Built and led an engineering team of up to 28 people (21 engineers under direct management, and 7 engineers as part of the extended team across Europe) to deliver solutions for efficient packet processing and resource management features for various containerized workloads (e.g. cable, 5G, video, etc.) for commercial adoption within a $4B program.
- Awarded a Red Hat Community Award for providing leadership to solve complex customer problems for native multi-networking capabilities of 10 CNCF features for 40+ customers.
- This led to commercial adoption, so customers didn't have to re-architect their applications.
- Received an Intel Women's Achievement Award and 10+ Divisional Recognition Awards for executing a cloud-native strategy that enabled consumption and scale of open-source technologies.
- Led a STEM secondary school initiative to increase the number of females entering technical careers.
Director – FIDELITY INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL DATA
Fidelity Investments Ireland
01.2012 - 01.2014
- Directed development, DBA, infrastructure, and performance test teams of up to 17 associates (7 Ireland-based developers and an extended team of up to 10 across the US and China) to redesign architecture to a distributed architecture, ensure architecture scaled for 4.2 million prices per day, and prevent data fines of $150m annually.
- Managed stakeholders, data processing vendor, and team to redesign architecture and infrastructure to reduce data load times by 60% and ensure architecture scaled for 4.2 million prices per day.
Director – FIDELITY INFORMATION SECURITY AND RISK
Fidelity Investments Ireland
01.2010 - 01.2012
- Led a programme of enterprise projects for employee authentication and access using third-party products and matrix management of up to 13 technical resources across the US, Ireland, and India to deliver a back end and hardware across 177 applications to deliver savings of $2.6 million.
Director – FIDELITY MARKET DATA
Fidelity Investments Ireland
01.2008 - 01.2010
- Directed a development team of 16 developers and 3 managers across the US and Ireland
- Defined, developed, and supported applications that managed real-time market data costing $158 million per year.
SENIOR MANAGER – FIDELITY EMPLOYEE SERVICES COMPANY
Fidelity Investments Ireland
01.2005 - 01.2008
- Managed 19 people (incl
- Managers, developers and DBAs) and other third-party vendors across Ireland & India to provide HR/payroll interface outsourcing services forecasted €2 million per year.
PROJECT MANAGER – FIDELITY EMPLOYEE SERVICES COMPANY
Fidelity Investments Ireland
01.2003 - 01.2005
- Managed 8 developers to deliver 12 Oracle client implementations on schedule and budget.
PROJECT LEAD – FIDELITY EMPLOYEE SERVICES COMPANY
Fidelity Investments Ireland
01.2002 - 01.2003
- Led 4 developers to deliver 3 Oracle client implementations. First of 8 staff to head up Galway office.
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Oracle Corporation
01.1999 - 01.2002
- Led 3 developers to deliver an Oracle application to the Irish market and solutions for 4 consulting projects.
ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Oracle Corporation
01.1998 - 01.1999
Education
Diploma in Project Management -
Institute of Project Management, Ireland
03.2024 - 09.2004
M.Sc. degree in Engineering Science - undefined
Harvard University, America
B.Eng. degree in Engineering Science, 2.1 Honours - undefined
Liverpool University, Britain
Skills
People Leadership: Built, developed, and managed multiple software development teams of up to 40 people to deliver cloud and groundbreaking solutions within large-scale global IT environments and applications
Technical Leadership: Proven track record and expertise in leading technical team(s) to overcome complex challenges and deliver capabilities to address requirements for internal and external customers for cloud-to-edge applications
Engineering Excellence – friendly, open personality who inspires, mentors, creates a culture of continuous learning and engineering excellence and encourages participation and sharing of ideas to get the best results from her team
Strategic Planning: Creates strategies, objectives, and plans for software deliverables and engineering improvements where innovation can thrive by seeking input from the team, other managers, customers, and stakeholders
Communications: Builds partnerships and fosters collaboration across the organisation
People Development: Strong advocate as a certified coach and provider of management and leadership training
Led teams using the following technologies: Kubernetes(k8s), Go, Python, Rust, Helm, Docker, JWT, gRPC, REST, Postgres, GIT, Jenkins, AWS, Ansible, Java, JavaScript, Spring, REST, Hadoop, Cloudera, XML, CSS, Oracle applications, PL/SQL, SQL, Perl, C, C, SOAP, HTML, Active Directory, and TCP/IP networking
Affiliations
Member of Harvard Alumni 1994-2024
Othercareerdetails
- Japan & Korea English Teacher (T.E.F.L. qualification) for Language Training 1996-97
- Latin America Volunteer in Guatemala 1995-96
- USA Research Assistant for Harvard Kennedy School of Government 1993-4
- USA & UK Graduate Training Scheme for Delco Electronics (General Motors) 1990-93
Awards
- Intel Coach Practitioner 2023-4
- Emmy Award for Pioneering Development to transform the way that TV works – 2022
- Leader of Impact – American Chamber of Commerce - 2022
- Red Hat Community Global Impact Achievement - 2021
- Women’s Intel Achievement of the Year Award 2020
- Frank Knox Postgraduate Harvard Fellowship 1992-94
- Liverpool University Mason Bibby Engineering Scholarship 1991
References
Available on Request
Timeline
Diploma in Project Management -
Institute of Project Management, Ireland
03.2024 - 09.2004
SNR CLOUD SOFTWARE ENG. MGR - NETWORK AND EDGE PLATFORM
Intel Corporation
03.2021 - Current
CLOUD SOFTWARE ENG. MGR. - NETWORK AND EDGE PLATFORM
Intel Corporation
01.2015 - 01.2021
Director – FIDELITY INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL DATA
Fidelity Investments Ireland
01.2012 - 01.2014
Director – FIDELITY INFORMATION SECURITY AND RISK
Fidelity Investments Ireland
01.2010 - 01.2012
Director – FIDELITY MARKET DATA
Fidelity Investments Ireland
01.2008 - 01.2010
SENIOR MANAGER – FIDELITY EMPLOYEE SERVICES COMPANY
Fidelity Investments Ireland
01.2005 - 01.2008
PROJECT MANAGER – FIDELITY EMPLOYEE SERVICES COMPANY
Fidelity Investments Ireland
01.2003 - 01.2005
PROJECT LEAD – FIDELITY EMPLOYEE SERVICES COMPANY
Fidelity Investments Ireland
01.2002 - 01.2003
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Oracle Corporation
01.1999 - 01.2002
ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Oracle Corporation
01.1998 - 01.1999
SENIOR CLOUD SOFTWARE ENG. MGR. – CLOUD COMPUTING GROUP
Intel Corporation
1 2024 - Current
M.Sc. degree in Engineering Science - undefined
Harvard University, America
B.Eng. degree in Engineering Science, 2.1 Honours - undefined
Liverpool University, Britain
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