Summary
Feargus O'gorman is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating resilient cloud-native services, currently focused on platform reliability at VMware Tanzu. He moved from hands-on software engineering roles at IBM and Pivotal into SRE work, bringing deep systems-level experience in C/C++, Java, distributed monitoring, and production SaaS. A convert to tech with a First Class MSc in Computer Science after humanities degrees, he combines rigorous academic discipline with practical engineering—having led a Google-UCD open source project implementation during his contracting stint. He has founded and run a small consultancy, giving him product-minded ownership and client-facing delivery experience alongside enterprise-scale SRE practices. Based in Dublin, he is comfortable navigating both low-level performance and higher-level platform reliability concerns, with a track record of shipping robust monitoring and IMAP/server components for large services. Notably, his background in research-rooted projects suggests an ability to translate cutting-edge ideas into production-ready code.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History and Classical Civilisation, Second Class Honours (2.1), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History and Classical Civilisation, Second Class Honours (2.1) at Trinity College, Dublin
Master of Arts (M.A.), Modern History, First Class Honours (1.1), Master of Arts (M.A.), Modern History, First Class Honours (1.1) at King's College London, U. of London
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science (Conversion), First Class Honours (1.1), GPA 4.11, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science (Conversion), First Class Honours (1.1), GPA 4.11 at University College Dublin
(Second Level), (Second Level) at Patrician College Ballyfin