Ireland & UK Enterprise Delivery

Technology that moves from strategy to production.

We embed veteran architects and engineers inside your organisation — writing real code, clearing compliance gates, and handing over systems your teams can operate without us.

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  • NCSC & ISO 27001 programmes
  • Outcome-linked pricing
  • No junior bench
The Practitioner Difference

We are a senior-only advisory and engineering group for CTOs and IT leaders in Ireland and the UK. Our team embeds directly within your department to ship working architecture, clear compliance gates, and handover fully documented platforms your engineers are excited to own.

Practice Areas

Architecture to production,
nothing in between.

Every engagement is led by a principal consultant who implements alongside your team — not one who delegates to a junior bench.

  1. Artificial Intelligence

    LLM pipelines · model governance · EU AI Act compliance · first production model in 14 weeks

    AI · ML · Data

  2. Cloud Enablement

    Multi-cloud landing zones · FinOps · data residency · 25–35% cost reduction in two quarters

    AWS · Azure · GCP

  3. DevOps & DevSecOps

    CI/CD pipeline design · IaC · NCSC-aligned security gates · CVE patches under 48 hours

    Security · Pipelines

  4. Platform Engineering

    Internal developer portals · Kubernetes · GitOps · onboarding from weeks to hours

    k8s · Backstage · SRE

  5. Data & Analytics

    Lakehouse architecture · streaming pipelines · data governance · ML-ready foundations

    dbt · Databricks · Kafka

  6. Technology Strategy

    Investment cases · roadmaps · vendor selection · interim CTO support — executed by the team who writes them

    Board · Advisory
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Four-Stage Delivery Lifecycle — Discovery to Handover

01 02 03 04 Discover OUTPUTS ✓ Arch audit ✓ Gap report ✓ Risk register ✓ Scope agreed DURATION 2–3 weeks Architect OUTPUTS ✓ Target blueprint ✓ Tech selections ✓ Compliance map ✓ Migration plan DURATION 3–4 weeks Deliver ACTIVE ✓ Live coding ✓ Sprint delivery ✓ Security gates ✓ Weekly reviews DURATION 8–16 weeks Handover OUTPUTS ✓ Runbooks ✓ Training done ✓ Docs accepted ✓ Clean exit DURATION 2–4 weeks

Why Irish Guru

Milestones delivered.
Not hours billed.

Large integrators sell consulting capacity. We sell completed production milestones — architecture signed off, migration waves finished, pipelines in production.

Outcome-first

Fees tied to delivery

Deployment frequency, migration waves completed, audit findings closed — reviewed weekly with your sponsor.

Regulated sectors

Compliance built in

Central Bank, FCA, NCSC, OGP, NHS DSPT — embedded from sprint one, not bolted on before audit.

About the team

Technology

Tools deployed in your environment

Selected for your constraints — existing licences, team skills, regulatory preferences — not our vendor relationships.

SECURITY & COMPLIANCE Snyk · HashiCorp Vault · SonarQube · ISO 27001 · FCA · NCSC · Central Bank · OGP · NHS DSPT · DORA CLOUD FOUNDATION AWS · Azure · GCP · Terraform · Pulumi · OpenShift · FinOps · Landing Zones · DR · Multi-region PLATFORM & DEVOPS Kubernetes · ArgoCD · Backstage · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Azure DevOps · Helm · Istio · Prometheus Grafana · Datadog · OpenTelemetry · Kafka · Feature Flags · Canary Deployments · SLIs & SLOs · SRE AI & INTELLIGENCE — Production Governed Azure OpenAI · LangChain · LlamaIndex · Databricks · MLflow · Snowflake · dbt · Apache Airflow Hugging Face · Pinecone · pgvector · RLHF Pipelines · Human-in-the-Loop · EU AI Act · Model Governance PRODUCTION
3.8× Median deployment frequency increase post DevSecOps implementation
30% Cloud infrastructure run-cost reduction within two quarters
65% Developer onboarding time saved on platform programmes

Proof in Production

Selected engagements

Results measured against the production milestones agreed at kickoff — not against optimistic projections written in a proposal.

Telecom · Ireland Cloud Migration · Compliance

1.4 billion records. Migrated without a single compliance incident.

A tier-one operator needed to retire a 22-year billing archive on end-of-life proprietary hardware. Irish Guru reverse-engineered an undocumented schema, built a three-stage validation pipeline, and executed a zero-downtime cutover — with full audit trails, ISO-compliant access schemas, and no legal discovery interruption throughout.

13 wks Kickoff to final cutover
58% Faster compliance queries
€980K Annual operational saving
0 Incidents during migration
LEGACY 22yr Archive EOL Hardware EXTRACT & PARSE VALIDATE & SIGN SECURE LOAD AZURE CLOUD STORAGE ISO 27001 · GDPR Compliant 1.4B records · full audit trail
Financial Services · Ireland DevSecOps · DORA

4× faster to production for a CBI-regulated bank.

A mid-tier Irish retail bank released to production once every three weeks — held back by manual change approval, zero automated security scanning, and no test coverage to speak of. After 16 weeks embedded, Irish Guru rebuilt the entire release pipeline on Azure DevOps with Snyk, SonarQube, HashiCorp Vault, and a reformed change board process that satisfies CBI and DORA requirements.

4× Deployment frequency
48 hrs CVE patch to production
94% Automated test coverage
0 Failed CBI audits post-go-live
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Sectors

Primary expertise in Telecom.
Deep reach across regulated sectors.

We already operate inside your compliance framework — ComReg, Ofcom, Central Bank, FCA, NCSC, NHS — which means no three-month ramp before delivery begins.

Primary Sector · Ireland & UK

Telecommunications

Our deepest sector practice. We deliver BSS/OSS decommissions, billing archive migrations, real-time streaming platforms, and 99.999% availability SRE programmes for national and regional operators — with zero-downtime methodology built into every engagement.

ComReg · Ofcom · NIS Directive · ISO 27001 · 24/7 SRE · Carrier-grade SLA

Ireland & UK

Financial Services

Core banking modernisation, payment infrastructure, AI compliance operations, and regulatory reporting for banks, insurers, and fintechs.

Central Bank · FCA · PCI-DSS · PSD2 · DORA

Public Sector

Government

Containerised workloads and DevSecOps pipelines for departments under CCS G-Cloud and OGP.

OGP · CCS G-Cloud · NCSC

Healthcare

Health & Life Sciences

FHIR-compliant clinical data stores and compliant cloud platforms for HSE, NHS, and private networks.

HSE · NHS · HL7 FHIR · NHS DSPT

Enterprise

Enterprise

Shared-service consolidation, engineering culture programmes, and FinOps governance at scale.

Multi-entity IAM · FinOps · SAP

FAQ

What CTOs ask on the first call

We are engineers first. Every principal we place spends their time in your codebase — building infrastructure, writing pipelines, hardening security gates. We do not produce roadmap decks and delegate to a junior bench.

We scope against production outcomes — migration waves completed, deployment frequency targets, security audit closures. Fees are reviewed weekly against agreed milestones, not open-ended daily billing cycles.

Yes. We are headquartered in Dublin but regularly embed on-site with teams in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Belfast, and Cardiff. Travel is included in our standard engagement structure for critical delivery phases.

Every Irish Guru consultant carries 10–18 years of delivery experience. We do not staff projects with graduates, then have a senior review their work once a week. The person in your architecture review is the same person writing your Terraform.

Begin the Programme

Let's assess your
delivery priority.

45 minutes with a senior Irish Guru consultant. No pitch deck, no sales process — a real technical assessment of your programme scope and options.

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