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doire
Software & AI Engineer for the past 7 years.
Business & Technology since childhood.
Creativity for a lifetime.
Technical Focus
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.
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.
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.
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.
Operationalizing AI. Building custom runbooks, agentic workflows, and incident response layers where AI handles the heavy lifting in production.
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.
Background
Building AI systems at scale for global industries. Solving hard problems in architecture and live service engineering under real-world enterprise pressure.
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.
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.
Recent Work
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.
Visit cade.golf ↗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.
Software Engineer - Live Service
Handling high-stakes incident response, observability, and production tooling. Hard-won expertise in keeping complex, distributed systems alive in production.
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.
RENDOIRE
Books I Enjoy
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.
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."
What the Dormouse Said
A history of how personal computing emerged from 1960s Bay Area counterculture: psychedelics, anti-war politics, and communal living.
Deep Work
The case for focused, undistracted work in a world of shallow distractions. Essential for anyone trying to build complex things.
Antifragile
Systems that gain from disorder. How to build things — and lives — that don't just survive shocks, but get better because of them.
AI Engineering
Deep practical strategies for building modern LLM-driven applications and maintaining intelligent systems natively.
The Intelligent App
A study on how software architecture is evolving to be agent-first, shifting away from standard monolithic structures.
Meditations
The literal notes to self from a Roman Emperor on stoicism, duty, and keeping a cool head under immense stress.
Hackers & Painters
Essays on the craft of software, the philosophy of programming, and why the best hackers are more like artists than engineers.
Let's build
something.
Always open to discussing systems design, AI agent frameworks, or interesting software challenges. Reach out on any platform.