Fergal Somers
Architect Principal Engineer Etc
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolFergal Somers is a seasoned architect and principal engineer with over 12 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, currently focused on cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes and Go. He architected Workday’s Kubernetes-based global cloud platform that runs Dev and Prod across AWS and GCP for 3,000+ developers and grew the platform organisation from an 8-person POC to an 80+ specialised team. His background spans web services, financial systems, telecoms, geo-spatial products and middleware, blending hands-on development with high-level design—previous work includes Akka/Scala and early research in intelligent agents. Fergal now consults on Kubernetes migrations, GitOps, networking and Agentic AI while helping enterprises adopt AI at VCola, bringing both deep systems experience and a research-rooted curiosity to practical platform problems. An MSc in AI from Trinity College Dublin underpins a rare mix of academic rigour and production-proven engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence, M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence at Trinity College Dublin
GermanGithub contributions (5)
Workday/workday.github.com
Nov 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 35 pushes in 1 year 7 months
fergalsomers/olm-sample
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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