Robert Gallagher
Principal Software Engineer at GovTech Singapore
Dublin, Dublin 1, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Gallagher is a Principal Software Engineer based in Dublin with over two decades of hands-on experience modernizing enterprise systems and coaching engineering teams across APAC and beyond. He specializes in application modernization, microservice decomposition, and pragmatic adoption of agile/XP practices, having led transformations for global automotive, port, healthcare, and government clients. Recently he has been applying LLMs and retrieval-augmented prompting to real-world problems—building classifiers and conference-navigation tools—while advising on vendor collaboration and engineering practices at GovTech Singapore. Known for pairing deep technical craft with mentoring and hiring acumen, he’s helped embed TDD and interview rigor into large organizations. A longtime practitioner who began in web and mobile messaging platforms, he combines institutional memory with a curiosity for emergent AI techniques and practical, production-focused delivery.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Imperial College London
Github Skills (32)
kubernetes-operator9
dump9
clickhouse-backup8
clickhouse8
puppet8
backend8
backup8
graphite8
dsc8
kubernetes7
ftp7
sftp7
powershell6
monitoring6
unattended-upgrades6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spoofedpacket/anycast-dns-monitor
Nov 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 4 months
spoofedpacket/incremental
Apr 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 67 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 8 months
incrementalrsyncmidnightbackupsincremental-backups
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