Technology wrangler, Christian, passionate about the tech, psych & philosophy of #AI, #CUX, #VUX, #Serverless. Builder SSA @awscloud

Northern Ireland, UK
Joined October 2009
💥 Sponsor Spotlight: @GlobalEOR If anyone captures the energy of our theme “Serverless is Serving,” it’s Michael O'Reilly (@bigheadoreilly), Senior Architect at G-P Engineering and proud Gen Z fluent tech leader. Mike shared what makes this event so important to G-P and the wider serverless community: “At G-P, we're years into our serverless journey — and well and truly indoctrinated! ServerlessDays is a brilliant chance to connect with others on the same path, see what people are building, and influence how serverless evolves. It's a big enabler for us.” And when asked how excited he is for this year’s event? “I'm Gen Z fluent. I would go with ampt. I'm really ampt for ServerlessDays 2025.” Same here, Mike — and we can’t wait to welcome the godfather of Wardley Mapping, Simon Wardley, to Belfast alongside an amazing lineup of speakers and attendees. Big thanks to G-P for their continued support in helping make this event possible. 🎟 Final tickets going fast — grab yours today: eventbrite.co.uk/e/serverles… #ServerlessDaysBelfast #ServerlessIsServing #Serverless #AWS #GP #Sponsors #Community #AmptNotBoomer #WardleyMapping #CloudEngineering
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🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome @AWS_UKI back as a sponsor for ServerlessDays Belfast 2025 on Thursday 15th May — thank you for your continued support! A special shoutout to Peter Trimble, Head of Technology, NI at AWS, for sharing his insights on this year’s theme: Serverless is Serving — a nod to Gen Z lingo, but also a reflection of the real shift we’re seeing in how modern systems are being built. 🚀 Peter highlighted how customers are moving beyond single functions to adopt end-to-end event-driven architectures, powered by evolving serverless data layers that boost scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency. And when it comes to what makes ServerlessDays special, Peter nailed it: “It’s a community-driven event. What I look forward to most is hearing how customers are raising the bar and continuing to reinvent themselves and their companies using the latest technology.” He also reminded us that Northern Ireland is at the forefront of tech innovation — and it’s time we start shouting more about it. 💪 Now, back to that Gen Z theme... We thought "Serverless is Serving" made us sound cool. But according to our resident Gen Z expert, “crashing out” (as Peter’s daughter says) may not be a good thing? 😅 We’ll stick with serving — because that’s exactly what this community is doing. #ServerlessDays #ServerlessIsServing #AWS #BelfastTech #TechConference #CommunityDriven #EventDrivenArchitecture #GenZApproved(ish) #CrashingOutNotRecommended
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Super cool talk by ⁦@virtualgill⁩ on the architecture that goes into powering #GenAI. Spoiler: it’s #Serverless and #EDA. Also, how to troubleshoot from beginning to end. #GOTOEDADay #Warsaw!
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#GOTOEDADay #Warsaw is one week away! Seats are filling up faaaasst! If you are interested in going, it's not too late but don't wait. Let me remind you of our lineup: - @davidand393 - keynote - @alexbdebrie - DDB in EDA - @anahit_fi - Failing in EDA (and handling it) - @boyney123 - Handling complexity in EDA - @em__shea - Evolving architectures - @FilipPyrek - EDA Startups - @virtualgill - EDA in #GenAI - @plantpowerjames - observability in EDA - @joshuaakahn - EDA on the frontend - @toish100 - EDA on Kubernetes - @oskar_at_net - EDA modeling - @VKazulkin - Building scalable apps - @edjgeek - Next gen apps with EDA It doesn't get any better than this in the EDA world! Register today s12d.com/eda-warsaw
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It's been a busy week at ServerlessDays Belfast HQ but we are almost ship shape and ready to slide down the slipways! Big thanks to all our sponsors. The event simply couldn't happen without your help & support: Amazon Web Services (AWS) EverQuote G-P Instil Liberty IT
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Huge shoutout to EverQuote for sponsoring ServerlessDays Belfast 2024! Their enthusiasm and support are instrumental in making this the serverless event on the island of Ireland. Want to learn more about EverQuote? Head over to their website: everquote.com/about
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With just 6 weeks to go over half our tickets are gone. Secure your spot now. At ServerlessDays Belfast, we promise to upskill you with the right tools! bit.ly/3V0gJX7 #serverlessdays #serverlessdaysbelfast (image from: lnkd.in/eDCBzyUn)
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#GOTOEDADay London is just over a month away on May 14. We are adding another amazing speaker. @virtualgill is bringing #GenAI with her talk, "Outsmarting the genie: How to make smart architecture decisions when building Gen AI apps" Register now: gotoldn.com/2024-eda-aws-day
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Speaker Announcement We can't wait to welcome @jeremy_daly back to SDB. He is CEO and Co-founder at Ampt, an AWS Serverless Hero and the publisher behind OffByNone.io weekly newsletter. We hope that has woken you up from your chocolate coma! serverlessdaysbelfast.com/
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Time to board the Serverless Ship of Dreams! Don't miss out on our early bird discount for ServerlessDays Belfast at Titanic Hotel Belfast on 23 May: bit.ly/3V0gJX7 #Serverless #ServerlessDays #TitanicBelfast
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Full house at the re:Invent recap with @AWSUserGroups and the Belfast community. Is this the biggest recap event in Ireland?? 😄 They have all been super and looking forward to the panel I’m on later today with @othergill, @virtualgill, Robert Conn & @IAM_dbro
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This guy was OK as well 🤣 – at Belfast, Northern Ireland
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My new years resolution is to help as many people as possible do their first conference talk in 2024. To kick this off I've partnered with @buhakmeh to create a webinar on tips for success in tech talks. Please share with any aspiring speakers you know. info.jetbrains.com/kotlin-li…
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59 people have signed up so far for the next BelfAWSt User Group event on 23rd Jan! We are bringing a community driven re:Invent recap to the @Liberty_IT offices, it's gonna be so much fun. There's still time to sign up! meetup.com/belfawst-meetup/e…
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📣 Speaker announcement 📣 Get ready for a deep dive into the world of AI on AWS! @virtualgill , Senior Solutions Architect @awscloud, will be sharing "A Pragmatic Look at GenAI on AWS" as one of our lightning talks 🚀 Register here 👉 meetup.com/belfawst-meetup/e…
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Im at #awsdublin learning about generativeAI with the one and only @Werner @AWSCommunity – at Dublin City, Ireland
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We are excited to announce our next set of speakers: @othergill, @MarkMcCann, @virtualgill, and @davidand393 who are tackling the emerging issue and rapidly developing opportunity of AI and Serverless: 'The Evolution of AI and Serverless'. This is essential for all engineers!
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📢 Exciting news! We're launching ServerlessDays Belfast At Night to keep the energy going all year. Don't miss the 11 May at 5.30 pm, hosted & sponsored by @rapid7. Theme: ‘Building Modern Cloud Apps’. Find out more: bit.ly/3NbJmfU #serverless #serverlessdays
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Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus29 Mar 2023
Agreed. Whatever happen next, his is an important moment in history.
Society must learn how we can effectively manage AI risk. The success of this petition will be a teaching moment that we have the political will to control humanity's destiny. The petition's failure will be a setback in the pursuit of global human governance of AI.
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Replying to @garybernhardt
I'm excited to stop writing code and start writing machine-readable specifications of precise intended behavior
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