Hello
Michael O'Reilly
Agile Delivery Lead in Bournemouth. Ten years taking software from idea to live — through PMO, QA, product and engineering leadership — currently leading a cross-functional team in a UK central government department. I stay close to the technical work, and build things of my own to keep it that way.
About
I started in a PMO documenting change requests, moved into software testing, and ended up leading the department. That route means I have sat in most of the seats around a delivery team, which is usually why I can tell when a plan is going to hold and when it is not. At Amigo Loans I led the teams that launched RewardRate, a regulated financial product, and later delivered redress and Scheme of Arrangement communications to more than 200,000 customers while the company wound down.
I care most about psychological safety and about people being able to say what they actually think in a stand-up. The rest — the ceremonies, the metrics, the tooling — only works once that is true. Outside work I build small things: a Game Boy ROM hack, a training tracker, this site. Get in touch about delivery leadership roles, or about any of the projects below.
Projects
Selected work, most recent first
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Agile Battleships
Design and build
The exercise I use to argue for shipping small and often, playable in the browser. Three rounds against the same fleet with the same thirty shots and the same clock — the only thing that changes is how often you find out whether the plan is working. Hand-written, no libraries.
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Agentic Delivery Pipeline
Design and build
A governed AI-assisted delivery process: acceptance criteria agreed before any work starts, a single human approval gate, and a scheduled unattended build that turns an approved ticket into a draft pull request. Layered instruction files and a permission policy keep it inside the lines.
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Pokémon Renegade
Contributor
A ROM hack of Pokémon Red built on the pret/pokered disassembly. A single-cartridge Kanto playthrough with a level-scaling overworld, a recurring rival who ambushes you on the road, and all 151 Pokémon obtainable in one save file — no trading required.
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Pit Wall
Contributor
A training and fuel tracker built as an installable PWA. Cloud-first storage with an offline cache, magic-link sign-in, and a shared strength podium for comparing lifts across users.
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Wessex Vehicle Care
Contributor
A one-page site for a vehicle care business, plus its brand mark in flat, mono and print variants. Served as static assets from a Cloudflare Worker on a custom domain.