Andrew Gallagher
Head Of IT And DPO at Siren
Galway City, Connacht, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Gallagher is a seasoned IT leader and data protection officer with over a decade of hands-on experience in information security, systems integration, DevOps and automation. As Head of IT and DPO at Siren since 2017, he combines strategic governance with day-to-day infrastructure delivery, having previously designed hardened, high-availability systems and led incident response for financial, telecom and utility customers. His background spans research-grade Linux operations at a web technology institute to green‑field builds for startups, giving him uncommon depth across both academic and commercial environments. Comfortable coding and cryptography-savvy from his consultancy days, he brings a pragmatically secure mindset to build resilient, auditable platforms. Based in Galway, he pairs an MSc in Computational Science with a long track record of turning complex technical requirements into operational reality.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Science MSc, Computational Science MSc at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (109)
peer-to-peer10
crypto10
oci-image10
vpn10
sd-wan10
siren10
openpgp10
decentralization10
openvpn10
sdn10
virtual-network10
networking10
container-image10
ethernet10
podman9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
andrewgdotcom/poshlib
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
A posix shell utility library
Contributions:1 release, 193 commits, 52 PRs in 2 years
posixshell
andrewgdotcom/tails-clone-persistent
Oct 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 releases, 258 commits, 163 pushes in 7 years 4 months
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