Kymeca
Carrick-A-Rede rope bridge, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
■ About Kymeca

Independent Technical Leadership

Fractional AI and data architecture leadership for ambitious startups and enterprises worldwide.

Carrick-A-Rede Rope Bridge, Co. Antrim — Michael Shannon / Unsplash

Kymeca was founded to give high-growth companies access to the kind of technical leadership that usually only comes with a full-time executive hire — without the overhead, the ramp time, or the long-term commitment. We work directly alongside your team: embedded, hands-on, and accountable for outcomes.

Domain Expertise

Data Engineering

Data lake, warehouse, and lakehouse architecture — covering ingestion pipeline design, metadata, lineage, provenance, and lifecycle governance at scale.

Enterprise Infrastructure

A decade at HPE spanning business continuity, virtualisation, and resilience engineering — including patents for storage replication and active-passive switchover.

Cloud Computing

Platform design, infrastructure strategy, and FinOps across AWS, Azure, and GCP — including production FinOps SaaS architecture with Snowflake and ML-driven anomaly detection.

Financial Services

VP-level architecture at State Street Bank — data lake implementation, microservices, and compliance-aware infrastructure for a top global financial institution.

Artificial Intelligence

Director of ML Engineering at scale — NLP, ML/cognitive analytics, and production AI systems including RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and LLM integration.

Security & Compliance

Security-as-a-service architecture at Alert Logic — threat detection, network packet analysis, and cloud-native response systems deployed on AWS.

“Most AI initiatives don’t fail at the model — they fail before it.”
Mark Doherty
Founder & Principal

Mark Doherty

Mark spent three decades building systems where failure wasn't an option — carrier-scale telecommunications networks, patented storage and replication technology at HPE, and VP-level data architecture at State Street Bank. He founded Kymeca to bring that depth of engineering leadership directly to high-growth companies who need it most, without the overhead of a full-time executive hire.

Work directly with the principal — no account managers.

Every engagement is led by Mark directly. If we're the right fit, you'll know it from the first conversation.