David Keegan
Principal Software Engineer at Viavi Solutions Inc
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Keegan is a mission-driven leader with 13 years of experience blending arts, mental health advocacy, and cultural programming into sustainable organisations. As co-founder and former CEO of First Fortnight, he built a festival and centre that uses creative therapies and evidence-building to challenge mental health stigma and support marginalised groups. He has since transitioned to general management roles, most recently at Goleen Harbour Ltd, and has served on the board of Mental Health Reform, bringing strategic governance to national mental health policy efforts. His background spans marketing, events and business development across cinemas, theatres and festivals, giving him rare fluency in programming, partnerships and audience growth. Trained in business & arts and entrepreneurial innovation, he pairs creative sector expertise with practical project delivery and a growing interest in building evidence for therapeutic arts. Less obvious: he’s bridged arts leadership with formal study in building construction technology, signaling a hands-on, multidisciplinary approach to organizational development.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BE (1st class), Electrical Engineering, BE (1st class), Electrical Engineering at University College Dublin
English, Spanish, French, Irish
Github Skills (18)
double9
command-line-tool8
ledger8
plaintext8
accounting7
lisp5
emacs-lisp4
melpa4
emacs4
benchmarking2
testing2
benchmark2
open-source1
performance-testing1
cpp-library1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
davidkeegan/dkmisc
Jul 2013 - Jul 2022
Contributions:50 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 1 month
davidkeegan/dklrt
Oct 2013 - Mar 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 6 years 6 months
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