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Jan 2024 - Present
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London, United Kingdom
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We keep hearing about the move to passwordless logins. What does all this mean? Does it mean that we’re not going to have any way of checking who we are or that we’re moving to the advanced technology where we have retina scanning? Let’s delve into it in this blog post.What Is Authentication?Let’s start with authentication. Auth0 defines authentication as the process of proving some fact or document is genuine. A user proves their identity by providing their credentials. A user can use…
Happy World Password Day! (In 2024, it’s being celebrated on May 2nd). Remembering loads of passwords is an absolute pain. As we work in corporate jobs, we find that the number of personal and professional passwords we have continues to grow, along with having to log into systems numerous times a day. In general, employees manage 191 logins and log in 154 times a month, with each login taking, on average, 14 seconds, causing us to spend at least 36 minutes entering passwords per month. Let’s…
A Change in Identity — From Developer to CraftspersonIn this blog article, we’ll explore the principles of software craftsmanship, the benefits of becoming a software craftsperson, and how we can improve our skills. We’ll look at a growth mindset and some resources to help us on our journey. Let’s dive in!Witnessing CraftsmanshipLet’s say we enter a home and face this beautifully crafted staircase. Why do we even think this is beautiful? What comes to mind is the skill and work that has gone…
Going from a mediocre team to an elite team can seem daunting, especially when we need to figure out where to start. The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) can be our north star, helping us build the habits and practices we need to be elite. We’ll look at DORA, the challenges of building habits, and how to form habits that stick.What Is DORA?The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) report focuses on four key areas to measure elite teams:Lead time: How long does it take from code committed…
Pull Request (PR) stacking is another name for stacked diffs, a concept that has existed for several years. We’ll discuss what it is, the tools we can use, and where PR stacking may benefit us.What Is PR Stacking?In traditional Pull Requests (PRs), the developer makes all the changes in one or more commits and then opens the PR to merge the change into the main branch. The approach in PR stacking instead is to separate the functionality to be delivered into pieces. Let’s say we’re working on a…
Gearoid is Growth Minded because he is always willing to learn and grow, and he is committed to helping others do the same. He has demonstrated this by sharing his experience and software craftsmanship expertise with others, encouraging teams to adopt an outward mindset culture, and educating individuals in using data analysis to improve software delivery outcomes.
This award demonstrates a commitment to software craftsmanship, continuous learning, teamwork, and the discipline to stick to daily practice.
IBM Service Corps is a global volunteer program that sends IBMers to work on projects with non-profit organizations and social enterprises in developing countries. The program is designed to use IBM’s skills and expertise to help solve some of the world’s most pressing social challenges. Service Corps projects have covered a wide range of areas, including education, healthcare, economic development, and environmental sustainability. Gearoid spent a month volunteering in Cape Town, South Africa, working with a local non-profit orgainisation.
This is an award for tranforming the Partner Relationship Managment from being a clunky process spread across a number of tools to being a single application - My Sales Activity - that can complete a deal registration in 5 minutes instead of taking a number of hours. This was built as an AngularJS application that cut the development costs by 1.5 milliion a year.
Received for being the first application to use uDeploy in a production application, deploying SugarCRM and other microservices as part of a Customer Relationship Management application. Along with developing a custom command line tool - uCommand to enable easier deployments using uDeploy.
Awarded the people’s choice award for the Connections toolbar for Firefox which was developed during my spare time, and voted on globally, by IBM employees. The project was open source and available on https://github.com/OpenNTF/ConnectionsToolbarForFirefox/.
Lead and developed the people on the SalesConnect team in Dublin to deliver a rich collaboration experience within the application.
B.Sc. in Computing Studies |
