Kilkenny, Ireland

I build the tools I need, then learn the trade that puts them to use.

Co-founder of an Irish whiskey merchant. Currently training as an ATEX inspector. In between, I write software to fix the process gaps I run into.

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Ongoing

Tools I keep building on, season to season

U10 Hurling Training Plan

Active

A 32-week coaching plan with SVG session diagrams, built for my own U10 hurling team.

React · Vite

U9 Soccer Training Plan

Active

Same approach for U9 soccer — also published as plain GitHub Pages links so the other coaches could open sessions without downloading files.

React · Vite · GitHub Pages

Data & Analytics

Modelling and dataset work, mostly sports-focused

Hurling Match Data

Open dataset

Puckout and set-piece data hand-coded from broadcast footage, All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2021–2025. Public domain (CC0).

Python · pandas

Predicting Club Strength from Transfers

Notebook

Predicting soccer club strength from transfer activity across nine European leagues, using RandomForest and SHAP.

Python · scikit-learn · SHAP

Predicting Employee Attrition

Notebook

Modelling attrition on IBM's HR Analytics dataset with XGBoost, evaluated on ROC-AUC given class imbalance.

Python · XGBoost · SHAP

Club Strength — v1

Notebook

My first ML capstone — the original version of the transfer-data project, since expanded and rebuilt.

Python · scikit-learn

Archive

Smaller builds, still worth a look

Bulwark — TTS Newsletter Reader ElevenLabs-narrated reader for a daily Substack newsletter. Private repo
Whiskey Ops ABV calculation tool for spirits production — temperature correction, dilution, PDF/CSV export. Private repo
Tasting Ticketing App Self-hosted ticketing for a friend's monthly whiskey tasting events. Live use
The Notice Board A Taskmaster-inspired family game, built as a single self-contained HTML file. HTML
Penguin & Iris Classifiers Early scikit-learn classifiers from the Springboard program. Needs re-hosting

About

I'm Tom — co-founder of WD O'Connell, an Irish whiskey merchant, where I've spent the past several years running digital operations, brand development, and product launches. Alongside that, I build the tools the business runs on, including Copper & Quill, a custom ERP.

I'm currently training as an ATEX inspector with AVS in Dungarvan, and building the inspection tooling featured on this site to close gaps I've run into on site. I'm drawn to work where process, tooling, and hands-on technical inspection meet — particularly project controls and operations roles.

Outside of that, I coach youth soccer and hurling, and keep a running interest in sports data and analytics — most recently a hand-coded open dataset from hurling broadcasts.

Kilkenny, Ireland github.com/tdraths