Apr 25, 2026 15 min read
Software & AI Engineer · Systems Architecture · Applied Intelligence
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Software & AI Engineer for the past 7 years.
Business & Technology since childhood.
Creativity for a lifetime.
AI Systems Infrastructure Applied Research Tech Philosophy
01 / Focus
Technical Focus
Intelligent Systems Design
Building reasoning systems from the ground up. I focus on native architectural integration where AI is part of the core logic, not just an API wrapper.
Software Delivery
Seven years of shipping code that has to work. I focus on bridging the gap between AI research and production products where the constraints are real.
AI Training
Building hands-on training for people who actually want to build with AI. Designed the curriculum and ran cohort sessions for practitioners across multiple industries.
Self-Hosted Infrastructure
I run my own AI stack at home. Proxmox, Ollama, open-source models, n8n for automation. Partly because it's useful, partly because I just enjoy it.
AI-Native Ops
Operationalizing AI. Building custom runbooks, agentic workflows, and incident response layers where AI handles the heavy lifting in production.
Content
I write at RENDOIRE about AI, software, and the infrastructure side of things. No hype, no thought leadership. Just stuff I find interesting or have figured out the hard way.
02 / Experience
Background
2019 to Present
Building Software & AI systems
Engineering
2024 to Present
Co-founder, AI Practitioner Programme
Education · AI Enablement
Building hands-on training for people who actually want to build with AI. Designed the curriculum and ran cohort sessions for practitioners across multiple industries.
Education
2022 to Present
Founder, RENDOIRE
Content & Brand · AI Writing
Writing about AI and software under the RENDOIRE name. Medium for longer pieces, Instagram for shorter content. Topics I actually care about, not what's trending.
Brand
03 / Projects
Recent Work
001
cade.golf
A social golf app for Irish golfers. Log your rounds, track your mates, discover courses, and settle arguments mid-round. Phase 1 is live.
Astro · TypeScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL
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Self-Hosted AI
Designed and built complete AI systems on hardware I own and manage. Language models, agent frameworks, reasoning pipelines, and automation networks, all running privately.
Proxmox · Ollama · n8n · Tailscale
003
Software Engineer - Live Service
Handling high-stakes incident response, observability, and production tooling. Hard-won expertise in keeping complex, distributed systems alive in production.
Go · Kubernetes · Datadog · Terraform
004
AI Education
Built and delivered workshops, written content, and digital learning materials to teach AI and Agents to practitioners. Co-founded a programme that ran cohort training.
Python · Langchain · Jupyter · Vercel
04 / Writing
RENDOIRE
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05 / Reading List
Books I Enjoy
[finished 2021]
The War of Art
A short manifesto on creative work that names the universal enemy as "Resistance", the internal force of procrastination and self-doubt.
[finished 2023]
Steve Jobs
A look at the contradictions of a visionary who built the iPod/iPhone/iPad era. Honest about product taste paired with the "reality distortion field."
[reading]
What the Dormouse Said
A history of how personal computing emerged from 1960s Bay Area counterculture: psychedelics, anti-war politics, and communal living.
[finished 2022]
Deep Work
The case for focused, undistracted work in a world of shallow distractions. Essential for anyone trying to build complex things.
[finished 2020]
Antifragile
Systems that gain from disorder. How to build things, and lives, that don't just survive shocks but get better because of them.
[want to read]
AI Engineering
Deep practical strategies for building modern LLM-driven applications and maintaining intelligent systems natively.
[reading]
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
An incredible deep-dive into the guts of databases and distributed systems.
[finished 2019]
Meditations
The literal notes to self from a Roman Emperor on stoicism, duty, and keeping a cool head under immense stress.
[finished 2022]
Hackers & Painters
Essays on the craft of software, the philosophy of programming, and why the best hackers are more like artists than engineers.
06 / Get in touch
Let's build
something.
Always open to discussing systems design, AI agent frameworks, or interesting software challenges. Reach out on any platform.