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Garth started coding as a teenager in the 80s. He was a full-time developer during the Celtic Tiger years before moving into education and consultancy. He ran the training team at Instil Software in Belfast for a decade before joining the Advocacy team at JetBrains.

Over the years he's taught well over 1000 courses, workshops, and seminars - using everything from CORBA to Kotlin.

Currently Garth is the Learning Consultant at Liberty IT, where he helps over 1000 technical staff (spread over three sites) maintain and extend their skill base. He contributes to the TechStart academies, Ignite hackathons, and the annual TechCon conference.

Garth is a prolific speaker, writer and co-organiser of several local conferences and meetups. When not at the whiteboard he teaches martial arts, lifts heavy weights and fights nerf wars with his kids.

Check out some of Garth’s past talks:

Upcoming conference sessions featuring Garth Gilmour

Leading 3000 Developers into the Next Era of Software Engineering

For the past two years Liberty Mutual has faced a challenge. How to exploit GenAI to make our 3000 engineers more productive without compromising quality, safety, or our values. Initially we created our own ChatGPT experience (LibertyGPT), rolled out GitHub CoPilot worldwide, and designed our own SDLC process. That was the easy part.

Right now we’re tackling three interrelated opportunities. The first is AI Engineering - how do we integrate GenAI into developer pipelines to ship better software faster? The second is AI Architecture - how do we infuse AI based features into new applications to better serve our customers? The final revolves around Agentic AI and the prospect of Digital Software Engineers - can this work and if so how?

Your organisation is most likely walking a similar path. We will share with you what we have learned to date, in terms of technologies, architectures, practises and processes. There will be no artificial hype or gushing over vendors and their platforms. This will be a ‘from the trenches’ talk where we share hard won lessons.

Thursday Oct 2 @ 10:15 @ GOTO Copenhagen 2025

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Content featuring Garth Gilmour

48:25
A Veterans Guide To Transitioning Android Teams Into Kotlin
A Veterans Guide To Transitioning Android Teams Into Kotlin
GOTO Copenhagen 2019
43:25
Kotlin 4 vs. Scala 3 - Which Has Higher Quality?
Kotlin 4 vs. Scala 3 - Which Has Higher Quality?
GOTO Oslo 2020
39:36
What We Left Behind - Ten Valuable Skills From The 1990s
What We Left Behind - Ten Valuable Skills From The 1990s
GOTO Oslo 2020
28:11
A TypeScript Fan's KotlinJS Adventures
A TypeScript Fan's KotlinJS Adventures
GOTOpia Europe 2020
35:06
TypeScript vs KotlinJS
TypeScript vs KotlinJS
GOTO Amsterdam 2022
37:10
Shut Up And Eat Your Veg: Lessons from Ancient & Recent History
Shut Up And Eat Your Veg: Lessons from Ancient & Recent History
GOTO Amsterdam 2022
38:49
A TypeScript Fan's KotlinJS Adventures
A TypeScript Fan's KotlinJS Adventures
GOTO Copenhagen 2021
49:36
The Heat Death of Enterprise IT
The Heat Death of Enterprise IT
GOTO Copenhagen 2021
Programming: Now And Then
Programming: Now And Then
GOTO Unscripted
22:22
Should Kotlin Be Your Go-To Language?
Should Kotlin Be Your Go-To Language?
GOTO Unscripted
41:40
Composing All The Things
Composing All The Things
GOTO Chicago 2023
42:53
Using Ktor 3.0 with All the Shiny Things
Using Ktor 3.0 with All the Shiny Things
GOTO Amsterdam 2024
Live Ask Me Anything with Eamonn Boyle and Garth Gilmour
Live Ask Me Anything with Eamonn Boyle and Garth Gilmour
TypeScript === JavaScript: The Snyder Cut with Eamonn Boyle & Garth Gilmour
TypeScript === JavaScript: The Snyder Cut with Eamonn Boyle & Garth Gilmour

Past masterclasses featuring Garth Gilmour

Full Stack Kotlin Application Development | GOTO Amsterdam 2024

Learning Kotlin/JS by Building Web Apps in React & Redux | GOTO Copenhagen 2021

Learning Kotlin/JS by Building Web Apps in React & Redux | GOTO Amsterdam 2022

Creating a Microservices Architecture with Kotlin, Ktor and Event Streams | GOTO Amsterdam 2020

Learning Kotlin/JS by Building Web Apps in React & Redux | GOTO Copenhagen 2020

Creating a Microservices Architecture with Kotlin, Ktor and Event Streams | GOTO Copenhagen 2019

Creating a Microservices Architecture with Kotlin, Ktor and Event Streams | GOTO Amsterdam 2019

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