For fifteen years I've been the person at Advanced Safety in Castlebar who gets called when a system stops making sense. I work across IT, ERP and warehouse management, eCommerce and data for a team of twenty-plus, and much of the job is turning manual, paper-bound processes into connected systems people can actually rely on.
More and more, that means building the missing piece myself — a live dashboard for the vending estate, validation that catches bad data before it reaches the ERP, ordering and fitting workflows that used to take hours and now don't. The work lives between departments, where a problem is never purely technical or purely human. The fix is nearly always the same: clarity, method, and getting more out of the tools already on the desk.
I was born in Poland in 1980, in the last grey decade of communism, when a home computer still felt like something from another world. Then my dad brought one home — a Commodore 16 — and that quietly decided the rest of my life.
Some of my earliest and fondest memories are of the two of us at the giełda komputerowa, the great sprawling computer market, hunting for parts and cassettes. A C64 came next, then an Amiga 500. Through my teens I built and rebuilt 286s, 486s and Pentiums — and I taught people how to use a computer: properly, from the beginning, from switching it on to Windows and the TAG word processor. I was good at it, and I never really stopped.
A free public website configuration scanner — TLS, DNS, email authentication and HTTP headers, checked against published standards.
A measurement study of how well Irish SME domains resist email spoofing (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) — the work that grew out of my MSc dissertation.
A Proxmox server at home gives me a lab — somewhere to break things safely, test ideas, and run the services I'd rather host myself. A working Commodore 64, datasette and floppy drive included, still earns its place on the shelf. Every machine in the house is a ThinkPad.
Gallup CliftonStrengths — leads with Strategic Thinking.
Top five: Input · Learner · Ideation · Deliberative · Intellection.
- MSc (L9), Computing in Cybersecurity — Atlantic Technological UniversitySep 2025 – May 2026 · dissertation on email authentication & spoofing resistance across Irish SME domains1.1 First Class Honours
- Postgraduate Diploma (L9), Computing in Cybersecurity — ATUSep 2024 – Jun 2025 · secure infrastructure, cryptography & forensics, infosec management, web application security1.1 First Class Honours
- Higher Diploma (L8), Computing — Letterkenny Institute of TechnologySep 2022 – 2023 · software development & testing, databases, software engineering & QA1.1 First Class Honours
Away from work I still get on the Xbox — Cyberpunk, Fallout, the long ones. And the achievement I'm proudest of isn't on any certificate: I gave my two boys their first computers and their first games, the same way my dad did for me.