Rent the Runway’s Mark Walsh discusses the tech ecosystem in Galway and how he found himself in the role of director of engineering.
It was “half accidental and half strategic, with the accidental being the bigger half, as my kids would say”, joked Mark Walsh, when asked what led him to become the director of engineering at Rent the Runway’s Galway location.
“On the accidental side, I began my tech career in a start-up in Spiddal in Galway, and spent a decade working as a software engineer. Then came the advent of DevOps and a wave of emerging technologies beyond Java, which pulled me into different areas, cloud, solution architecture and even product management type roles.
“People management arrived completely by accident about six years ago, not as any great career strategy, and it has evolved from there into what I do today.”
Prior to joining the organisation he was commuting to a different role, four hours there and back, which he explained took a toll on his family life. Moreover, he had always planned on returning to Galway.
