Occasional talks on serverless, software architecture and building better software.
If you would like me to speak at your event, meetup or conference, get in touch.
Upcoming
Panel of Tech Experts – 10th Anniversary Special
Waterford Tech Meetup
· Waterford, Ireland 🇮🇪 · 12 November 2026
Past appearances
2024
Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 · 10 October 2024
Belfast, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 · 6 September 2024
Belfast, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 · 23 May 2024
2023
4 Strategies to Build Incredibly Performant Serverless Apps
Serverless Architecture Conference
· Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 · 22 October 2023
slides
2022
The 1 Priority Change You Need to Make to Test Your Serverless App
Serverless Summit
· Remote 🌐 · 16 November 2022
Serverless for Startups
Serverless Architecture Conference
· Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 · 18 October 2022
slides
2018
I've been to the land of serverless and I've come back to tell you all about it
Dublin Microservices Meetup
· Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 · 29 November 2018
slidesvideo
2017
Serverless: what it is, when to use it
Waterford Tech Meetup
· Waterford, Ireland 🇮🇪 · 29 November 2017
Microservices won't improve your code quality
Agile Eastern Europe Conference
· Kiev, Ukraine 🇺🇦 · 7–8 April 2017
slides
OOP is not dead
PHP London
· London, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 · 2 March 2017
slides
2016
Mistakes made and Lessons learned with PHP (Panel)
PHP Dublin
· Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 · 4 October 2016
Healthy OOP in Javascript
BelfastJS
· Belfast, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 · 31 August 2016
slides
Microservices won't improve your code quality
PHP Dublin
· Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 · 11 August 2016
slides
When to use microservices
Video interview
· Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 · 11 August 2016
video
Technical Debt is not a unicorn
Corkdev.io
· Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪 · 19 July 2016
slidesvideo