Deirn Geard is a commercial and technical professional with nine years’ experience blending medical device and pharmaceutical product specialization with hands-on software contributions. Based in Queensland, Australia, he has held territory and national sales leadership roles across major healthcare companies including Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson Medical, Boston Scientific and CONMED, where he currently works as a Product Specialist for surgical products. Complementing his commercial career, Deirn contributes as a back-end developer to the high-profile Fabric modding project, implementing Tag Factory APIs and optimizing registry and biome-related systems—demonstrating a knack for performance-minded engineering. He brings a rare mix of customer-facing clinical product expertise and practical open-source development skills, able to translate field needs into technical improvements. A guitarist outside work, he combines creativity with disciplined problem-solving, often finding non-obvious solutions that improve both product usability and system efficiency.
9 years of coding experience
Walled Lake Western High School Michigan USA,University of Michigan
Contributions:117 reviews, 19 commits, 34 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Deirn primarily worked on enhancing the Fabric modding API, focusing on tag-related functionalities. Their contributions include implementing the Tag Factory API, which involved adding biome tag selectors and supporting dynamic registry tags. Furthermore, the user refactored code related to biome modifications, moving them after the datapack is loaded, and optimized registry sync packets, improving performance. These changes indicate a focus on extending and improving the core features of the Fabric modding environment.
Contributions:42 releases, 13 commits, 80 pushes in 7 months
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