I’m Seosamh Ó Cathail, (english: Seosamh Cahill) and I come from a small town in the west of Ireland called Ballina.
I became interested in programming through video games and pc games when I a kid, these were the days of the 386 chip, the Secret of Monkey Island and the US robotics 56k modem.
Near the end of school I got a work placement with a local tech firm called Digitome (now Propylon), writing SGML, some basic VB scripting and secretly downloading Doom mods in the morning before the guys got in. I really enjoyed the whole experience so I decided to study Computer Science at NUI Galway.
I studied for a year in Galway before moving up to Dublin, eventually attaining a masters degree in English literature from Trinity College Dublin, following another passion of mine.
Finally I trained professionally to become an accountant and was admitted as a member of the Certified Public Accountants of Ireland in 2004.
I spent the first part of my working life as an accountant, I’ve been a software engineer since 2010 and I’ve played a bit of music too.
In 2011 I left Ireland, living in Canada then Germany before returning home in 2022.
Ich spreche gern Deutsch, un po’ di Italiano agus an teanga is áille ar dhroim na talún, an Ghaeilge bhinn bhlasta.
Seosamh Ó Cathail MA CPA.