Our Team

The professional team behind Island Bridge Networks.

Nick Hilliard
Director / Founder
A pioneer of the Irish internet, Nick has specialised in IP backbone design and implementation since 1995.
He liaises with international organisations such as RIPE and the IETF and is actively involved in
developing European IP addressing policy and creating technical standards.

Nick oversees and validates all infrastructure designs and is IBN's lead consultant for large scale and
complex network projects. He is also the chief technical officer for INEX,
the IP peering point for the island of Ireland.

nick (at) islandbridgenetworks.ie

Barry O'Donovan
Director / Founder, MICS CITP
As an internet infrastructure specialist, Barry has extensive experience designing, building and managing
critical network and server infrastructure for small service providers to large scale national ISPs.
He is also heavily involved with Euro-IX, creating software and best practices for IXPs.

Barry excels at system administration and automation as well as VoIP systems and telecom billing. He is
also an accomplished PHP programmer and is the project manager and lead developer of
IXP Manager, a management system for IXPs, which is in use at nearly
200 exchanges around the world.

Barry is a Chartered IT Professional (CITP) for the specialist area of solution development and implementation.
He leads our new project for telecoms billing and routinely advises our
customers on billing systems, financial modelling, business processes and strategy.

barry (at) islandbridgenetworks.ie

Róisín King
Senior Network & Systems Engineer
Róisín joined Island Bridge Networks in 2015 and she has the distinction of being the first to join our team.
Róisín works as a project lead on new customer turn ups with responsibility for managing the full scope from
planning through implementation to completion.

She has broad experience in
entprise networking in IT departments in a variety of industries such as world sports governing bodies, airports,
mining and engineering services. She has also worked with a domain registry where she was responsible for ensuring
the continuous operation of a national registry’s critical infrastructure and their edge network.

Denis Nolan
Senior Network & Systems Engineer
Denis joined Island Bridge Networks in 2016 and works as a project lead on new customer turn ups with responsibility
for managing the full scope from planning through implementation to completion.

Previously Denis has held key engineering roles within the telecoms and enterprise computing / hosting sector
having responsibilities over core networks and infrastructure. With experience in developing cloud infrastructure,
secure encrypted email for global private networks and working on major semi-state projects, he understands the work
and challenges that many of our customers face on a daily basis giving him a great insight to their needs.

Yann Robin
PHP Developer
Yann joined Island Bridge Networks in 2016 and works as a full-time PHP developer on the
IXP Manager project. This project is a for the good of the internet
project and powers over 100 IXPs worldwide.
Island Bridge Networks manages the project's sponsorship program on a strictly not for profit basis and the development element of that role is fulfilled by Yann.

Yann hails from France and has worked as a PHP developer for a highly ambitious start-up there and for a fintech
company in Dublin before joining our team. As a project, IXP Manager runs almost 100 exchanges around the world
facilitating local low latency IP peering.

Roland Huszti
Senior PHP Developer
While Roland only joined Island Bridge Networks in 2018, he had worked with Barry for
a decade and is a skilled and competent PHP developer with 15 years experience. He has
developed applications ranging from e-commerce solutions to location based services.

Roland's primary focus is as our lead developer for Island Bridge Billing Systems' online service which provides
telecom billing for the 21st century. If you want to know more about this, how about
meeting us for a coffee.