Declan Whelan
Agile Coach at LeanIntuit
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDeclan Whelan is an Agile Coach and technical coach with 16 years helping organizations build better products by creating high-performing teams through agile and lean practices. He combines hands-on software development roots with deep experience in coaching, training, and leading agile transformations across startups and enterprises, including roles as CTO/co-founder and director at the Agile Alliance. Based in Guelph, Ontario, he regularly mentors entrepreneurs and students and has helped found local agile communities and events, including Canada’s inaugural Agile Coach Camp. Declan’s work bridges process and technical excellence—he’s comfortable in the codebase while shaping organizational change—and he’s known for tailoring workshops and coaching to fit real team contexts. Notably, his career includes founding product-focused firms that led to commercial IP acquisition, reflecting both technical vision and practical delivery.
16 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BASc, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, BASc, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (70)
markdown10
javascript10
typescript10
documentation10
mermaid10
visualization10
flowchart10
sequence10
mindmap10
delegation8
distributed-computing7
liveview7
cucumber7
lambda6
ruby6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dwhelan/huey
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:49 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
dwhelan/delegate_matcher
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:151 commits, 1 PR, 42 pushes in 3 months
matchertestingdelegationruby
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