I build distributed systems at scale by day and infrastructure for Irish language revival by night.
At work I'm a senior developer at 888Spectate, leading development on some of the platform's most critical systems — feed panic handling, bet placement decomposition, and distributed backends that have to be right. A decade of production Python, with Java, Kafka, AWS, and whatever else the problem needs.
Outside of work I ship independent products and build open source infrastructure for Irish language normalisation. I founded Athbheochan Labs — an open source organisation building the tools that make it normal to use Irish in public spaces, in digital products, in games, and in daily life.
I'm also building Misneach — a platform to normalise Irish language use in everyday commercial spaces. The technical work is only part of it — I identified the gap, defined the product positioning and UX principles (including explicitly rejecting gamification in favour of treating users as adults), and do the actual fieldwork: visiting businesses in Loch Garman, ordering in Irish, observing what happens.
- 🟢 Ceangal — Irish language word game · Live
- 📖 Foclóir Póca — free Irish–English dictionary · Live
- 📝 Líosta — Irish language PWA · Live
- 🎮 Gaeilge sa Chonsol — open source game localisation · Spyro 50%
- 📡 Aistriú — Irish i18n tracker for open source software · In progress
- 🕹️ EMU·HUB — browser-based CHIP-8 emulator, built from first principles · Live
- 🌿 Misneach — Irish language normalisation platform · In progress