Gale Fagan
Engineer • Leader • Human
I’m Principal AI Architect at Brightflag, a Wolters Kluwer company, in Dublin. Before that I was CTO at dv01, ran the Nomad team at HashiCorp, and spent six years at Apple making the factory lines that build iPhones run faster. On the side I’m working on a doctorate about what people do with AI at work when the tools they’re given can’t do the job.
Lately
- October 2026. I presented “Librarian Catches Thief” at SCORED ’26 in Prague. Malware campaigns in AI agent skill registries copy their own files hundreds of times, and plain document similarity finds the copies. The preprint is free to read.
- September 2026. plugin-place is public: my own Claude Code plugin marketplace, with every vendored skill keeping its author and license.
- 2026. Plugin Librarian, the tool behind the paper, is open source. It tells you which of your Claude Code plugins overlap before you install one more.