About theworldsbest.dev

Well, it's really only me at the moment. My name is Stephen McElhinney, and I've been developing/coding for about 25 years now.

I was an early starter, entered a C program into the 1992 Aer Lingus Young Scientist Exhibition (Now BT Young Scientist), and got an honourable mention in my category (meh..). And it's really been since that, that I've had the bug. Not coding bugs, like. I don't have any of those. Ever.

Experience

Here's some of the companies I've worked with / projects I've worked on in the past:

O2/Three

  • Early dol.ie (Digifone OnLine) development - involved in developing the original o2online.ie website
  • Developed webtexts.three.ie (facility for sending free text messages from web to mobile, pre: iMessage days)
  • Responsible for moving three.ie from the three.co.uk website in 2006 (project management / development)
  • Responsible for setting up / driving online sales through the three.ie online store from 2009 - 2012 (in association with Buy4Now

TCD (Trinity College Dublin)

  • Worked on various different college websites (tcd.ie), eg. TBSI (Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute), Public Relations, Office of Provost website etc
  • Am also TCD Alumni! Studied my BSc in Information Systems by night while I worked there. Graduated with 1st class hons 2015

Ryanair.com

  • Redevelopment of ryanair.com in 2015 which laid the foundation for the current ryanair.com website (Angular 1.5 development)
  • Lead developer on all feature development on ryanair.com for this period
  • Reponsible for the integration of Adobe CMS (Omniture) into ryanair.com codebase, allowing marketers to run campaigns alongside best in class single page application

HubSpot

This is my current main gig, and I love it!

  • Principal developer in a team of world class developers that build on top of the HubSpot CMS
  • Lots of custom development - Chatbots, AI, NLP, AI driven voice, WhatsApp Messaging, Automation
  • My main responsibility here is solution design and architecture - I build/design production-ready systems that others build on top of.

Chat to me

I'm mostly on Twitter these days, so make sure you reach out if you want chat about anything dev-related. I do take mentees from time to time, but I'm all full up at the moment unfortunately.

I am also available for virtual speaking events, I can discuss all things AWS / Nodejs / Chatbot development / NLP / JavaScript. Reach out to me via the contact page