Michael O'Reilly

Agile Delivery Manager

UK central government department

• Lead a cross-functional team delivering functionality that unblocked the retirement of a legacy case-management system, against a compressed timeline.
• Coordinate delivery across three Agile teams, and present technical risk to product and senior stakeholders in plain English so they can make informed go/no-go calls.
• Rebuilt the team's retrospective practice after a process gap let a live change reach customers without the required internal communication — the session produced team-owned actions with named owners on release review, delivery metrics, and embedding data science colleagues in the team.
• Supported a shift-left move in QA, with testers engaging directly with the performance testing team rather than depending on another team's schedule.

Head of Application Development — RewardRate

Amigo Loans · Bournemouth

• Guided Scrum Masters and cross-functional teams under SAFe, elicited requirements direct from C-level executives, and prioritised the product backlog across new features, technical debt and defects.
• Delivered Scheme of Arrangement communications and redress payments to more than 200,000 customers during company wind-down.
• Held Scrum Master and Product Owner roles simultaneously through the transition to keep the team focused and delivery continuous.
• Orchestrated the sale of technical assets to raise capital for customer redress.
• Saved £200k a year by identifying skill gaps and cross-skilling internal team members off contractor dependency.

Agile Delivery & Software Testing Lead — RewardRate

Amigo Loans · Bournemouth

• Led the department's transition to SAFe through training and coaching workshops for Product Owners, developers and testers.
• Facilitated PI planning for the RewardRate launch, aligning MVP scope with the Product Manager and senior leadership; the product went live two weeks after FCA authorisation.
• Procured, integrated and configured Jira and Xray for Jira, replacing the previous project tooling.
• Wrote the testing strategy covering protocols, environment management and KPI monitoring, and built the analytics that tracked it.
• Built automated tests for the lending decision service covering 100+ rules, introduced Postman for API testing, and created the SDET role including its job description and KPIs.

Software Testing Manager

Amigo Loans · Bournemouth

• Ran the testing function across three products: car finance, the retail shop, and the Ireland product.
• Championed SAFe adoption within the testing department, improving teamwork and process efficiency.
• Migrated test case management tooling, improving reporting clarity and alignment to requirements.
• Redefined tester job descriptions and KPIs, giving the team role clarity and a progression path.

PMO Analyst

Amigo Loans · Bournemouth

• Documented business cases, requirements, risks and sign-offs for change requests, and produced process maps and work-level instructions for Operations teams.
• Documented technical specifications and built end-user training for 50+ automated rule sets on a new underwriting system.
• Supported the launch on site alongside Operations, tracking rollout and reporting production issues in real time. Underwriter decision time fell from 45 minutes to 15, and average monthly lending rose from £14m to £25m within six months.

B.Sc. Internet Technologies

University of Lincoln

• Certified SAFe Agilist — Leading SAFe, 2022
• Certified SAFe Scrum Master, 2022
• Harvard University CS50 — Introduction to Computer Science, 2022
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, 2021
• Ministry of Testing — TestBash, 2018
• Rapid Software Testing, 2016
• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification, 2016
• BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners (Merit), 2008

AI-assisted delivery process — design and build

Jira, GitHub, agentic tooling

• Designed a governed pipeline where acceptance criteria are agreed before any work starts and a single human approval gate triggers an unattended overnight build.
• Built the scheduled job that takes an approved ticket, works in an isolated git worktree, runs each project's own QA commands against a declared baseline, and opens a draft pull request.
• Layered instruction files, a permission policy and a drafts-only rule keep the agent inside agreed boundaries.

Game Boy ROM hack — contributor

Game Boy assembly, RGBDS

• Level-scaling overworld and a recurring rival encounter system built on the pret/pokered disassembly.
• Name the specific piece you wrote — it reads much better than a general description.

Training & fuel tracker — contributor

React, Vite, Supabase

• Installable PWA with cloud-first storage, an offline cache and magic-link authentication.
• Your specific contribution.

Business site & brand — contributor

HTML, CSS, Cloudflare Workers

• Static one-page site deployed to a Cloudflare Worker on a custom domain, with a brand mark in flat, mono and print variants.