About
A small consultancy, on purpose
AMDG is owned and run by two partners, Richard Daly and Daniel Torzala, with contractors brought in when a piece of work needs a skill we do not have.
The companies
Two companies, one practice
AMDG Systems began in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2021. We set it up while both of us were still in full-time roles, took on contracts in the evenings, and grew it into something that could stand on its own. The early work was broad: a reporting and statistics application for a financial firm, a members’ portal for a membership organisation, and a run of smaller systems for organisations that needed one thing built properly.
AMDG Technologies, the Irish company, followed in 2025 and is based in Waterford. It carries most of our work today: institutions and smaller organisations in Ireland that hold records about people, have real regulatory obligations, and have no technical staff of their own.
Emily Helps, a records and administration platform for parishes and dioceses, was founded the same year as a sister company. It came out of the same observation: a standard of architecture normally reserved for regulated industry turns out to be affordable for organisations that were never going to pay enterprise prices.
The name is the Latin motto ad maiorem Dei gloriam, for the greater glory of God.
The people
The partners
Richard Daly
Richard spent eleven years in digital transformation before AMDG became his full-time work, latterly as an architect and site reliability engineer at Accenture on programmes for US state agencies and global insurers including AXA. He came into technology from the business side, through international account management at a telecoms firm, and has deployed CRM and back-office systems on most of the major platforms.
He handles the scoping, the roadmaps, the contracts and the architecture decisions that are expensive to reverse once a system is live. He holds a Higher Diploma in Software Development and a degree in Energy Science from the University of Limerick.
Daniel Torzala
Daniel co-founded AMDG and leads the engineering, from the first contracts in Phoenix to the platforms we run today. His side of the work is cloud infrastructure, integrations between systems that were never designed to meet, and the parts of a platform that have to keep working with nobody watching.
His background is in data platforms and integration work across autonomous vehicles, semiconductor manufacturing and home healthcare, the last of which brought the same habits about regulated personal data that run through everything here. He also works with large language models and retrieval systems, and holds a degree in software engineering from Arizona State University.
How we work
Five things we hold to
To the spirit of the agreement
A contract describes the work as it was understood at the start, and work changes. When the two begin to differ we raise it at the time rather than at the invoice.
Diagnosis before prescription
A fair part of the job is telling a client that the change they are asking for is bigger than the problem they have. If a rebuild or a new platform will cost more than it saves, we say so before the work starts.
Evolution over revolution
Where personal or financial records are involved, we upgrade in steps. The old system keeps running until the new one has taken over the work it was doing.
Security and data protection in the foundation
Compliance shapes the data model from the start, which is where it is cheapest to get right. We have worked under HIPAA and GDPR, and to the standards of state government and insurance.
Deliberately small
The person who scoped the work is the person who does it. There is no overhead a client pays for before anything useful happens, and contractors come in for particular skills and leave when the work is done.
Where
Waterford and Phoenix
We work with clients across Ireland and the United States, mostly remotely and in person when it matters. Most conversations start with a call or an email.