Summary
Brian Gallagher is a technical product leader with 14 years of experience building payments and monetisation platforms across startups and scale-ups, now serving as Staff Product Manager for Payments at Etsy in Dublin. He has repeatedly led complex cross-functional programs—launching Etsy’s first EEA regulated entity, designing a global Flow of Funds, and integrating high-value payout and domestic acquiring systems that reduced costs and enabled multi-currency scale. Earlier roles include founding and scaling Good Travel Software to deliver global car‑sharing SaaS for GM and Toyota, where he also drove fraud-reduction and multi-vendor hardware integrations. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and product strategy, he blends an MSc in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing with deep operational delivery across risk, compliance, treasury, and payments. Pragmatic and data-driven, he has a track record of turning regulatory and operational complexity into streamlined, production-grade payments experiences.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Sligo Grammar School
MSc Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, MSc Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing at Trinity College Dublin
BSc Hons Multimedia Programming, BSc Hons Multimedia Programming at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Diploma Interactive Media, Diploma Interactive Media at Senior College Dun Laoghaire
English, php