About
20 years building enterprise systems at global institutions. Now bringing that capability to Irish SMEs through AI.
I've spent twenty years building complex systems at some of the world's largest financial institutions — quantitative risk models, regulatory frameworks, enterprise-wide processes spanning multiple countries and thousands of users. That experience taught me what technology can do when it's built properly.
In 2024, I started building with AI tools — Claude Code, GPT-4, and the ecosystem of modern AI infrastructure. What I found was transformative: the same kinds of systems that used to require teams of 20 and budgets of €500k can now be built by a single experienced engineer in weeks.
But that revolution hasn't reached the businesses that need it most. Irish SMEs — hotels, food producers, retailers, professional services firms — are still being quoted €25,000–50,000 for projects that should cost a fraction of that. Only 12% of Irish SMEs use AI. Not because they can't benefit from it, but because nobody is offering it at a price and complexity level that makes sense.
I started my career in quantitative risk — pricing derivatives and CDOs at the sharp end of financial complexity. I spent a decade at a major global insurer, first as a front-office dealer trading FX and derivatives, then as Solvency II Project Manager implementing regulatory capital frameworks across European subsidiaries.
In 2016, I was appointed Global Head of Risk Identification at a European G-SIB — one of the world's systemically important banks. I built a team across three countries and designed the group-wide risk framework from scratch, covering APAC, EMEA, and the US CCAR process.
That's the enterprise experience. But the skills that matter most now aren't bank-specific — they're about understanding complex systems, building things that work under pressure, and translating technical capability into business value. That's exactly what AI-as-a-Service for SMEs needs.
I build with Claude Code (Anthropic's AI coding tool), modern web frameworks, and cloud infrastructure — the same tools used by the world's best engineering teams. This isn't no-code drag-and-drop. It's production-grade software, built fast because AI has made a single experienced engineer as productive as a small team used to be.
This website, for example, was built and deployed in days, not months. The same approach applies to everything I build for clients: real software, built properly, delivered quickly, at a fraction of the traditional cost.
I hold a B.Sc. in Mathematical Physics from University College Dublin and the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification from GARP. I'm based in Wexford.