John Whelan
ICT Research Commercialisation Manager
Ireland
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Top SchoolJohn Whelan is an ICT research commercialisation manager with a PhD in Physics and 25 years of experience bridging software development, finance, and academic technology transfer. He founded three tech startups—two that raised seven-figure VC rounds—and ran Alatto for nine years, giving him hands-on founder and scaling experience. Since 2008 he has led commercialisation at Trinity College Dublin, where he created the LaunchBox accelerator, directed Blackstone LaunchPad, secured European funding for a Connected Health accelerator and a continent-wide tech-transfer training programme, and established Trinity’s Open Source Programme Office. He also lectures on innovation and technology transfer at NUI Galway, combining academic teaching with practical spin-out support. Notably, his background spans early trading-floor development in Dublin and Tokyo to corporate IT roles at Vodafone, reflecting a rare mix of startup grit, institutional programme-building and cross-border financial technology insight.
25 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Post Grad as part of PhD, Post Grad as part of PhD at University of AlbertaCBS Sexton StreetPhD, PhD at University College GalwaySophia University
English, Japanese, Irish
Github Skills (6)
wave6
octave6
python4
data-analysis3
ternary2
r-package1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lscsoft/lalsuite-archive
Apr 2001 - Jul 2016
Old LALSuite Mirror (use https://git.ligo.org/lscsoft/lalsuite for latest repository)
Contributions:361 commits in 15 years 6 months
ligo
lscsoft/lalsuite
Apr 2001 - Jul 2022
Mirror of LALSuite, please use official GitLab repository.
Contributions:391 commits in 21 years 7 months
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