Garth Gilmour

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:

• GOTO Copenhagen 2021 - A TypeScript Fan's KotlinJS Adventures
• GOTO Amsterdam 2022 - 10 Programming Lessons From the Past