Tech Advocates


At Rural Ireland Tech Advocates our goal is to build a diverse community of advocates to represent every county in Ireland. We will announce new advocates throughout the year on this page and through our social media accounts. If you would like to become an advocate or recommend someone then please drop us a mail at : [email protected].

Tech Advocate for County Kerry

Dr Anita McKeown


Director at SMARTlab Skelligs


Tech Advocate for County Wexford

Noah Santschi-Cooney


Software Engineer – Code Intelligence at Sourcegraph


Tech Advocate for County Westmeath

Dave Graham


Research Technologist and Technology Advocate at Dell Technologies


Tech Advocate for County Tyrone

Raymond Dillon


MD at Proto Software | Windows Insider MVP | Xamarin Certified Developer


Tech Advocate for County Dublin

Vineet Gupta


Head of Devops at Fidelity


Tech Advocate for County Offaly

Robert Lawson


Senior Data Engineer at Auth0


Tech Advocate for County Kerry

Gearóid Kearney


Co-Founder of @myAccessHub


Tech Advocate for County Kilkenny

Cathal Cronin


Game Server Engineer at DIGIT Game Studios


Tech Advocate for County Galway

Frank Kilcommins


API Technical Evangelist @SmartBear


Tech Advocate for County Antrim

Sapphire Duffy


Product Consultant @ Kainos | Senior Leadership Fellow @ Women Who Code


Tech Advocate for County Down

Maurice Kelly


Head Of Engineering at Novastone


Tech Advocate for County Dublin

Ntsoaki Phakoe-Mckevitt


Career Coach | MC | Keynote | Content Creator | Coaching & empowering students


Tech Advocate for County Kildare

Tiffany O’Keeffe


UX and Interaction Designer at BNP Paribas Securities Services


Tech Advocate for County Mayo

Conor O’Donnchadha


Senior Software Engineer at Zendesk


Tech Advocate for County Leitrim

Mary Browne


Software Engineer & Agile Scrum Master, Spring by Citi, Citi


Tech Advocate for County Wicklow

Nikita C


Engineering Manager


Tech Advocate for County Cork

Evan Smith


Site Reliability Engineer


Tech Advocate for County Armagh

Chloe Thompson


Cognitive Science Engineer at Aflac Northern Ireland | Tech Events Organiser


Tech Advocate for County Meath

Brendan O’Brien


Software Developer – Audiology Software Tech-Support


Tech Advocate for County Wicklow

Pádraig O’Brien


Senior Software Engineering Manager at Toast


Tech Advocate for County Kerry

Fiona Cremins


Digital Humanities Graduate


Tech Advocate for County Meath

Amber Higgins


Security Engineer at Intercom


Tech Advocate for County Down

Robert Annett


Director at WebsiteDen ltd


Tech Advocate for County Antrim

Caolan McKendry


Community Manager | Chair, NI Game Dev Network


Tech Advocate for County Tyrone

Dermot McElduff


Legal Tech Systems Specialist at Allen & Overy


Tech Advocate for County Clare

Jon-Paul Sullivan


SRE Pipeline Architect at Cisco


Tech Advocate for County Cork

Stephanie Sheehan


Director of Engineering (Platform) , Workhuman / Co-Founder of RebelCon


Tech Advocate for County Kildare

Róisín Flannery


Solution Architect/Enterprise Architect, Treasury and Trade Solutions at Citi


Tech Advocate for County Wicklow

John Doran


Chief Technology Officer at Phorest Salon Software