Jerh O'connor is a Cloud Software Team Lead at IBM with over 7 years in cloud-focused leadership and a long track record across enterprise software, microservices, and migration projects dating back to the late 1990s. He currently drives development and delivery of IBM's Public Cloud Continuous Delivery Pipeline and has deep practical experience building on Tekton and other CI/CD frameworks. A hands-on technical leader, Jerh has led cross-functional teams from site-creation APIs for Watson Content Hub to JEE enterprise portals, blending system design, scripting, and low-fi UX work as needed. He balances customer-facing consulting and critical incident response with a passion for mentoring and team growth, and has served as an industry external examiner to influence academic standards. Beyond delivery, he aims to promote STEM skills in primary education, reflecting a commitment to developing both teams and the next generation of technologists.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
St. Brendans College, Killarney
MSc., Computer Applications - Information Retrieval, MSc., Computer Applications - Information Retrieval at Dublin City University
St. Mary's, Moyderwell, Tralee
BEng., Computer Engineering, 1st Class Honours, BEng., Computer Engineering, 1st Class Honours at University of Limerick
Contributions:1 release, 26 PRs, 227 pushes in 6 years 2 months
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