# Daniel Kelleher

*Chief Technology Officer, Civic*

Daniel Kelleher is the Chief Technology Officer at Civic; his experience is varied - after obtaining a PhD in Computational Linguistics and Machine Learning in Dublin, he worked in finance, e-government, decentralised identity and now, agentic security, where he is putting his focus in designing the secure tool-calling layers that make agentic AI safe and effective for businesses.

Daniel lives in Berlin with his family, and when not seen working from Berlin's leafy cafés, you can mainly find him swing dancing.

## Elsewhere

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelleherdaniel/
- GitHub: https://github.com/dankelleher
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/danbkelleher.bsky.social

## Field Notes essays

- [From Claws to Fingers: Evolving MCP for the Agent Revolution](https://www.civic.com/field-notes/from-claws-to-fingers) (2026-03-16): As agents move beyond chat into real systems, the challenge is no longer model intelligence but the tooling layer beneath them. Here's how to make it production-ready.
- [MCP for all: solving the auth problem](https://www.civic.com/field-notes/mcp-for-all) (2025-06-18): Explore the challenges of MCP server authentication and how @civic/auth-mcp simplifies OAuth 2.0 for secure, multi-user AI agent access.

Source: https://www.civic.com/field-notes/authors/daniel-kelleher