IQAbel / About IQAbel
IQAbel is Andrew’s independent engineering practice, based in Galway, Ireland. A place for thoughtful software, connected systems and ideas worth exploring.
Engineering / Applied AI / Exploration
A small practice. A broad perspective.
My work spans frontend, product and platform engineering, with a current focus on applied AI and connected systems. That includes manufacturing connectivity, medtech workflows, enterprise integration and cognitive architecture research.
IQAbel brings those threads together. I stay close to the architecture, the implementation and the conversations that make a system useful to the people working with it.
For larger engagements, the practice draws on a small network of specialists assembled around the work. The aim is a clear relationship, considered decisions and something your team can own afterwards.
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These summaries describe the engineering scope. Client and product names are kept private.
Industrial systems
Connecting legacy machinery to a Unified Namespace, with real-time dashboards that put production data in front of the people who need it.
System architecture · OT/IT integration · Dashboards
Medtech operations
A system linking product risk management and training records, helping quality teams follow the relationship between products, risks and competence.
Data modelling · Workflow engineering · Traceability
Enterprise AI
Microsoft Copilot integration beyond M365, with enterprise identity, structured data access and evaluation of where human review is needed.
Enterprise integration · Identity · Evaluation
Alongside the production work
Some of the most useful work starts with “what if?”
The practice also explores cognitive architectures, structured reasoning and ways to evaluate AI systems. Research moves from an idea to a working experiment, with the limitations and unanswered questions made explicit.
Other experience includes verification research, private AI infrastructure and software for club operations. Each brings a different perspective on what makes technology useful.
Explore research & developmentWorking principles
Explain the choices, the constraints and the evidence. Good engineering gives people a basis for making decisions.
Existing systems have history and people depending on them. Changes should account for both.
Keep exploring, but let the findings shape the next step. A useful experiment can change the original idea.
The next useful thing starts here
If you have a challenge at the intersection of software, connected systems and new possibilities, I’d like to hear about it.