✦ Scott Cunningham ✦

Production Engineer (Software Engineer) @ Meta

April 2017 – present, Dublin

I currently work on the Linux Kernel PE team, making sure we’re shipping kernels and kernel features safely and quickly.

In the past I’ve worked on a variety of teams and technologies across Meta:

• 2025 - present - Linux Kernel
• 2023 – 2025: Platform Security - Foundational security protecting Meta’s production network from its corporate network.
• 2019 – 2023: Vulnerability Management: Platform - Tooling and infrastructure to identify, track and surface vulnerabilities at huge scale across Meta’s range of products and infrastructure.
• 2017 – 2019: Virtualization Infra - Built a platform and tooling for host virtualisation used by thousands of developers at Meta.

Infrastructure Engineer @ Ensighten

April 2015 – March 2017, various remote locations (mostly London)

Building CI/CD infrastructure and bespoke deployment software for a company of hundreds of engineers at Ensighten. Worked with tools like Terraform, Puppet, Ansible and others to “automate all the things” in close collaboration with developer teams.

Software Engineer @ PageFair

August 2014 – February 2015, Dublin

Worked on maintaining several Python-based services as well as some JavaScript integrations, server monitoring and maintenance.

SRE Intern @ Google

June 2013 – September 2013, London, United Kingdom

Developed a high-performance data aggregator in C++ to produce easily-digestible data for a JavaScript dashboard to enable the Google Ads SREs to monitor trends in their data over time.

Cluster Management/Infrastructure SWE Intern (STEP) @ Google

July 2012 – September 2012, Kraków, Poland

Migrated a legacy C++ search engine for an internal tool to a more robust and maintainable Java system, with an aim to enable improved reliability, test coverage and code sharing.

Systems Administrator @ Netsoc (TCD)

June 2011 – June 2014, Dublin, Ireland

Systems Administrator for Netsoc, Trinity College’s Internet Society. Maintained several GNU/Linux servers, which provided services such as e-mail, website hosting, shell accounts, chat services and online game servers to members of the college.