I'm Paul McBrien, a software engineer from Ireland, having worked in Silicon Valley and with the Viturbi Startup Garage incubator in Los Angeles in the past.
- Name: Paul McBrien
- Languages: TypeScript/NodeJS, Python are my main backend languages - React for frontend
- 🌍 Software Engineer Team Lead, Dublin
- 💣 Previously worked at startups and Listful.AI Software Co, and NSAI
- 🎓 MSc in Computer Science (AI) and BSc in Applied Physics, both from Dublin City University
- 🧠 Passionate about distributed systems, automation, and AI security applicatons
- 📝 Dedicated to delivering high-performance, secure, and scalable solutions across projects
- ❤️ Exploring distributed systems, automation, and cryptography, and AI
- ✨ Enthusiastic about Typescript, NodeJS, Python and databases
- 🌍 Writing and contributing to academic research and open-source projects (such as Odmantic and SQLModel)
- 📘 Researching ways to optimize network management systems and AI pipelines
- 🔗 Currently interested in disaster-resistant technologies - currently implementing Kademlia for distributed hash tables
- 📄 GSAFE: A novel framework in video using interpretable and privacy-preserving feature extraction. Key security contributions:
- Resilience to detection evasion attacks such as image transformations.
- Enhanced privacy with minimal feature leakage (e.g., 32-bit embeddings).
- Computational efficiency, outperforming traditional methods by 74% in feature extraction speed.
- 📄 AI: Finetuning small LLMs for secure, ultra fast local processing