Gerard Keating
About Me
Experienced software engineer focused on improving how teams build,
ship, and run production systems. Over 18 years I have worked across
post-production, e-commerce, and cybersecurity in both small teams and
large organizations. Deep Python expertise with strong cloud and CI/CD
automation skills, with an emphasis on reliability, safe deployments,
and observability. I am known for tackling ambiguous problems,
aligning stakeholders, and delivering durable improvements at scale.
Side Projects
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Your News Headlines
Real news headlines from reliable sources, the way you want them.
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Issue Infinity
Shuffle through tens of thousands of comic book covers, one random issue at a time. Every cover has its own page to share.
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diende
Can't decide what to do next? Give diende your list and let it make the hard decision for you.
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Big Corporate Whale Hunting
Which S&P 500 companies share board members? Every company's directors, the other boards they sit on, and their top institutional shareholders, from SEC filings.
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Presentations and Posts
- Read my blog at vfxger.com
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Presented a talk at
PyCon Ireland 2025
titled
Dataclasses: What Do They Do? Do They Do things? Let's Find
Out!
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Presented a talk at
PyconIE 2023 titled
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Type Annotation
Slides[PDF]
- Slides for a Test Driven Development in Python using unittest and mock talk
