Your On-Demand Technology Leader
Shape and implement your tech strategy with an experienced CTO - without the full-time commitment.
Hi, my name is Daragh O'Shea.
I am a CTO, software developer, and business owner. I mix my time between working on my own businesses, and consulting on technology projects with startups, scaling companies, and enterprise organisations.
I have a broad range of experience and really enjoy all aspects of entrepreneurship, from technology and product through to commercials and operations. Aside from programming, I have previously founded a travel startup, worked in modular construction, and helped to operate a digital marketing agency.
More recently, I am focused on AI, utilising a variety of AI tools to help with personal and business productivity, as well as advising companies on how to adopt AI, and building workflows for them.
My Services
I have experience in both getting strategic and rolling the sleeves up. I enjoy both equally too.
As a Fractional CTO, I provide strategic technology leadership on a part-time basis.
I help startups and growing businesses create scalable tech strategies, build and mentor tech teams, and guide product development—all without the need for a full-time executive hire.
Most business owners and team leads know that they need to start adopting AI to help increase productivity, but not many have the time and understanding to get started.
I offer consulting services to businesses and teams to adopt best practices, and understand how to leverage AI effectively.
Having been through building a startup, I have a good idea of what not to do when it comes to building a Minimum Viable Product.
With a small team, we can build out an MVP in 4-6 weeks for most projects that are scoped to a key set of functionalities.
Over the years, I have developed internal and external tools using the majority of online collaboration tools to help businesses be more productive.
My preferred tool for a number of years has been coda.io and I have built a small expert consultancy that offers Coda Development.
Who I work with
I have worked with small startups, publicly listed enterprise, and various sizes and stages in-between.
Getting a first version of your product built, and iterated on as quickly as possible.
- MVP Development
- MVP Scoping
- Pre-development Advice
- Technology stack guidance
Typically moving from v1 to v2 as your business starts to grow.
- External to internal hiring
- Technology stack guidance
- Team mentoring
- Strategy and investment support
I typically work with smaller teams to develop prototypes and advise on strategy for fixed term projects.
- Internal tools
- Operational improvements
- Product development
- Technology strategy
I work with investment teams to help provide strategic and implementation support to their portfolio companies.
- Mentorship for Dev and Product teams
- Fractional CTO
- New feature development
- Coaching
Testimonials
Some kinds words with companies I have worked with in the past.
Daragh came in as a fractional CTO initially as we were building out our MVP of Finray prior to raising our seed round. Daragh helped to strategically align our product team and deliver a complex data solution for on-premise deployment.
Daragh remained onboard for over 18 months as he helped implement our MVP with our team.
Eoghan O' Griobhtha
Daragh helped us to better adopt AI tools to improve our productivity and customer service. His advice and insights were invaluable and game-changing for us.
We plan to continue to evolve our AI adoption with Daragh as the technology evolves.
Diarmuid Curtin
Daragh was hired to help us to improve some internal collaboration tools and was able to rapidly develop a solution that was used company-wide.
Our teams were delighted with the robust and usable interfaces that greatly improved our decision making and productivity and the tools he built were easy to adopt and to maintain.
Greg Thompson
Daragh helped me to custom-build a tool in Coda that implemented my UX framework for handling complex business processes.
He has great ideas and suggestions, and has expertise that allowed me to get a solution turned around very quickly.
I am very happy with the consultation and partnership.
Rob Manzano
Daragh put in place some tools and processes that has allowed us to serve even more clients faster.
As a busy MD with little time on my hands, this was exactly the kind of help I needed to give me the confidence to grow VROOM Digital.
Daragh is passionate, smart, and reliable. We've continued to work with Daragh on a number of projects following the scucess of our first engagement.
Shane Curtin
I hired Daragh to consult on our Fintech startup, because of his experience in startup land: raising funding, building an MVP and working with Enterprise Ireland.
His lean and agile approach to our startup really helped us to formulate the best way to get our MVP built using existing technologies in the fastest time.
I woud have no hesitation recommending Daragh.
Ruairi Gough