Dan Garry
Principal Product Manager - Agent & UI Platform
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDan Garry is a principal product manager with 12+ years building user-centred, data-driven products across mobile, web, backend and infrastructure, currently leading Agent & UI Platform at Workday from Dublin. He has repeatedly bridged design and engineering in balanced agile teams to ship features and platform improvements at scale, from native Android apps for Wikimedia to Kubernetes-focused products at Pivotal. His background combines an MSc in Systems Biology and a BSc in Mathematics & Computer Science, giving him a strong analytical lens for product experimentation and metric-driven decisions. As an active contributor to high-profile open-source Android projects (including the official Wikipedia and Commons apps), he pairs hands-on code quality work with product ownership—often tackling maintainability and UX edge cases. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who moves fast on feedback loops while keeping long-term platform health front of mind.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Systems Biology, Master of Science (MSc) Systems Biology at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (19)
kotlin10
mobile-development10
ui-design10
android-development10
java10
javas10
uid10
android-app10
front-end-development10
android10
android-application10
android-apps10
native-android10
kotlin-android10
refactor9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia
Jun 2014 - Sep 2016
📱The official Wikipedia app for Android!
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:128 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the official Wikipedia Android application. Their work involved implementing new features, such as the "Today" button in the navigation drawer and the addition of a "Show password" checkbox, along with improvements to existing functionalities. This included enhancing the user experience through improvements to the display of search results, link previews, and error messages, and refactoring code for better performance and maintainability. Additionally, they addressed bugs, such as fixing display issues related to section navigation and handling of malformed URLs.
commonswikipedia-androidwikimediamediawiki-apiandroid
commons-app/apps-android-commons
May 2019 - May 2019
The Wikimedia Commons Android app allows users to upload pictures from their Android phone/tablet to Wikimedia Commons
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:4 commits, 12 PRs, 5 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on improving the Android application's code quality and maintainability. Their contributions involved removing redundant code, such as unused fields and imports, and simplifying logic within the codebase. Furthermore, they addressed deprecated functions and refactored code for better readability, enhancing the overall performance and cleanliness of the application.
android-phonepicturesphotographycommonsupload-pictures
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.