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

Presentations and Posts

• 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
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• Slides for a Test Driven Development in Python using unittest and mock talk