Engineering the boring bits
Networks designed rather than accumulated, servers racked and documented, backups that get restored on purpose before they're needed in anger.
Roscommon, Ireland
About Fentech
Web design and IT solutions built around your business — no waffle, just results.
In their words
What clients say
We've been using Fentech for our IT support for over two years now. Paul sorted out our whole network, moved us onto Microsoft 365 and we haven't had a serious issue since. He's always at the end of the phone when something comes up — that kind of reliability is hard to find.
Who you're dealing with
Hi, I'm Paul
I've been pulling things apart to see how they work since I was small — the family PC first, then anything with a circuit board in it. That never really stopped; it just picked up a couple of degrees and a VAT number along the way.
I studied computer and electronic engineering at GMIT, which is where the hardware side got serious: circuits, embedded systems, networks, and the habit of measuring something before believing it. I followed it with IT & Business at DCU — the half of the job that engineering courses skip. Knowing why a system exists, what it costs and who has to live with it turns out to matter as much as whether the code compiles.
So Fentech isn't a repair shop that also does websites, or an agency that also fixes laptops. It's one person who can survey a network, build the software that runs on it, fix the machine it runs on, and then shoot the drone footage for the marketing — and who'll tell you straight when you don't need any of it.
Degree
Computer & Electronic Engineering
GMIT · hardware, embedded systems, networks
Degree
IT & Business
DCU · systems, management, how work actually pays
Day job, every day
Networks · servers · code · cameras
Roscommon, and wherever the van reaches
How it got here
A long run-up, not a career change
The short version of twenty-odd years of taking things apart.
Early onThe family PC, in pieces
Curiosity first, permission later. Reinstalling Windows before I was old enough to be trusted with it, and learning what a driver was the hard way.
School yearsBuilding machines for other people
Specs picked to a budget, parts ordered, cables tidied. The same job I still do — just with better tools and a tester now.
GMITComputer & electronic engineering
Circuits, microcontrollers, networking and signal theory. Where guessing stopped being an acceptable method.
DCUIT & business
Systems analysis, project and business management. Technology that a business can actually afford and run beats technology that only impresses engineers.
AlongsideCameras, drones and the edit suite
Photography and video started as a hobby and became a service — property, construction and tourism work, shot and cut by the same person who built the site it goes on.
SinceCode, in anger
Factory quality control, CRMs, portals, planning-data platforms, self-hosted infrastructure and AI agents. Software that people rely on to get paid on Friday.
NowFentech Limited
One person, one number, the whole stack — for businesses and households across Roscommon, Galway, Longford, Westmeath and Leitrim.
Hands on the tools
The four things I do most weeks
Not a service list — the actual work, in the proportions it happens.
Writing the software
Full-stack builds around how a business really works — job tracking, quality control, portals, dashboards, automations. Owned outright, no per-seat fee.
Fixing and building hardware
Laptops, PCs, servers and consoles on the bench; custom machines built by hand, stress-tested overnight and handed over with the parts receipts.
Shooting and cutting the media
Drone and ground camera work for property, construction and tourism, edited here — then dropped straight into the website or the social calendar.
Credentials & tools
Business-grade technology, small-business friendly
SonicWall
Firewalls & network security
VMware ESXi
Virtualisation & servers
Microsoft 365
Setup, migration & support
WordPress
Websites & e-commerce
Based in Roscommon, working everywhere
From farmhouse Wi-Fi to city-office servers.
Core services
What Fentech can do for you
Let's talk about your tech
Status: operational & taking new clients. Get an honest answer about what you need — and what you don't.