Damien Gallagher
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer at Brightbeam
Ireland
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Top SchoolDamien Gallagher is a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer and AWS Community Builder with over 20 years of experience modernizing enterprise systems and driving cloud migrations at scale. He has led large programs including containerizing and migrating 250+ enterprise applications, delivered zero-downtime deployment strategies, and consistently achieved significant cost and performance gains across Fortune 500 environments. Currently pioneering AI-driven developer productivity and application modernization using Claude Code, Amazon Bedrock and other GenAI tooling, he has demonstrated measurable boosts in team efficiency and deployment velocity. Damien blends hands-on software engineering (Java, Python, Go, React) and infra-as-code practice with platform leadership—building internal developer platforms that cut project setup from hours to minutes. He’s an award-winning DevOps master’s graduate and prolific AWS cert-holder who pairs technical mentorship with pragmatic automation to scale teams and reduce technical debt. A rare combination of enterprise migration experience and early adoption of AI-assisted code transformation makes him a go-to architect for cloud+AI modernization.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, DevOps, Master of Science - MS, DevOps at Atlantic Technological UniversityBSc IT, Java, MySql, MSAccess, C, C++,JEE, HTML, CSS, Javascript, BSc IT, Java, MySql, MSAccess, C, C++,JEE, HTML, CSS, Javascript at University of GalwayGlenties
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Github Skills (155)
amazon-cognito10
terraform10
google-map10
google-maps10
aws-s310
agm10
aws-apigateway10
sdk10
aws-amplify10
angular10
cli10
storage10
typescript10
java10
aws-sdk10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rlennon/smallwindow21
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Repo for Small Window Assignment
Contributions:5 reviews, 207 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
window
L00162772/dissertation-frontend
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Frontend Repository for the Dissertation
Contributions:285 pushes, 1 tag in 3 months
javascriptreactfrontend
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