Dave O'DeaSoftware / Systems / AI

03 / About

Builder first.
Context always.

Dave O'Dea
Chief Technology Officer at Maitre

Galway, Ireland

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The through line

My work sits between software architecture, product decisions and the reality of operating a system.

At Webtext, I moved from senior engineering into leadership while working on legacy platform consolidation and a move to AWS. At Nory, the focus was workforce forecasting and scheduling, alongside product and design. At Maitre, it is hotel operations and the web, mobile and AI-enabled products that support them.

The contexts change. The questions I return to are practical: what is the actual problem, what can we change safely, and how will we know the decision helped?

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Selected experience

Chief Technology Officer

Maitre (opens in a new tab)

Leading technology and engineering for a hotel operations platform, replacing fragmented manual workflows with web, mobile and AI-enabled products.

Product Team Lead, Engineering

Nory.ai (opens in a new tab)

Led a product-focused engineering team building ML-driven workforce forecasting and scheduling systems, working with product and design in a post-Series A startup.

Head of Engineering

Webtext (opens in a new tab)

Progressed from senior engineer into engineering leadership. Led work to consolidate legacy systems into a unified API platform and move on-premise infrastructure to AWS.

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Current focus

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AI in the engineering workflow

Where AI changes how products are built, and where engineering judgement remains essential.

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Modernising existing systems

The constraints, sequencing and trade-offs involved in changing platforms that people already depend on.

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Reliability and ownership

How architecture, security and operational responsibility fit together in day-to-day engineering.

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Software for operational work

Turning fragmented processes into useful products without losing the detail that makes the work difficult.

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A personal note

I am based in Galway, Ireland. Writing is a space for me to think through difficult problems and share what I am learning.

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