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Athlone, Ireland

Charlie Gallagher

Innovation Engineer, AI and Cloud. Chair of the RUN-EU Student Council.

I build AI agents and the cloud tools around them at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and I'm in my final year of Software Design with AI for Cloud Computing at TUS.

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Selected work

What I've been building

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Final-year project

In progress

Small Agent Safety Evaluation

When a small AI agent fails a harmful task, it might have refused, or it might just not be capable of doing it. Most safety scores can't tell those apart. I'm building an open-source tool that pairs each harmful task with a harmless one using the same tools, so you can see which.

I'll use it to compare three sizes of Qwen3.5 (4B, 9B and 27B), with reasoning on and off. It's built on Inspect AI and AgentHarm, test-first, with a CLI, a local dashboard and PDF reports.

  • Python
  • Inspect AI
  • AgentHarm
  • Ollama
  • pytest

HPE, Jun 2026 - Present

Knowledge Agent for a Multi-Agent Platform

An agent that the other agents on a multi-agent platform can ask when they need to look something up. It pulls product docs and asset data through MCP, and the answer it hands back is put together in code rather than written by the model, so it can be trusted.

It became the innovation team's fastest proof of concept to make it onto the product roadmap. It also led to a patent mining session and two papers I co-wrote.

  • Python
  • Google ADK
  • A2A
  • MCP
  • FastAPI
  • pgvector
  • Docker

HPE, Jan - Jun 2026

AI Report Generation Tool

Sales engineers upload a spreadsheet of a customer's hardware and get back a finished report. Python does the number crunching, an LLM writes the narrative, and Pydantic schemas catch any output that doesn't fit before it reaches the document. Reports export to Word, PowerPoint, PDF or Excel.

I led the architecture and backend. It went from an empty repo to production approval in ten weeks, with over 100 tests and a Kubernetes deployment, and it's now been productised. It also won me a Bronze Star.

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • Pydantic
  • React
  • Grommet
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

HPE, Feb - Jul 2026

Agentic Cloud Migration Platform

A large platform that uses AI agents to help move workloads to the cloud, built by teams in Galway, India and the US. I built two of its action agents: a storage agent, and a pre-flight agent that checks an environment is ready before a migration starts.

I also worked on the frontend, and was picked for the small team that built the demo for a major industry conference, turning the UX team's research and Figma designs into a working UI.

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Go
  • Figma

Experience

Where I've been working

  1. Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Hybrid Cloud & Office of the CTO, Galway

    1. Innovation Engineer, AI & Cloud

      From June 2027

    2. Innovation Engineer (part-time)

      Sep 2026 - Present

    3. Innovation Engineering AI Intern

      Jan 2026 - Aug 2026

    • Led the architecture and backend of an AI report tool that went from an empty repo to production approval in ten weeks. It's since been productised.
    • Co-built a knowledge agent for a multi-agent platform using A2A, MCP and RAG. It was the innovation team's fastest proof of concept to reach the product roadmap.
    • Built two action agents (storage and pre-flight checks) for an agentic cloud migration platform, and worked on its frontend with teams in Ireland, India and the US, including a demo for a major industry conference.
    • Presented to US senior leadership and at the All-Ireland all-teams meeting, and went through HPE's mentorship programme.

  2. RUN-EU Student Council

    European University Alliance

    1. Chair

      2026 - Present

    2. Council member

      2024 - 2026

    • Represent over 15,000 students from nine European universities in how the alliance is run.
    • Help shape the short international programmes that let students work on projects abroad.

  3. Technological University of the Shannon

    Athlone

    1. BSc (Hons) Software Design with AI for Cloud Computing

      2023 - 2027

    • My final-year project is an open-source tool for testing whether small AI agents are actually safe.
    • Earned the AWS Certified AI Practitioner certification in July 2026.
    • On track for a First Class Honours (1.1).
    • Relevant modules: Data Mining and Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Service-Oriented Architecture, Security, Software Development for Cloud, Software Engineering, Databases, Networks.

Recognition

Awards, certifications and talks

About

Charlie Gallagher

I'm a final-year software student at TUS and an innovation engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where I build AI agents and the cloud tooling around them. I started at HPE as an intern in January 2026 and I'm joining full-time after I graduate.

The part I enjoy most is making AI tools that people can actually rely on. My final-year project looks at the same problem from the safety side.

Outside of that I chair the RUN-EU Student Council, representing students from nine European universities.

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Let's talk

I'm always happy to chat about AI agents, evaluation, or anything else on this site.

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