About

I'm Dave Holmes-Kinsella — a data and analytics leader and hands-on builder. For 25+ years I've been turning messy data into decisions, products, and AI that holds up, across healthcare, fintech, and telecommunications.

I lead as a player/coach. I build the sources of truth teams can trust, the engineering practices that keep them trustworthy, and the analytics teams that run on them — and I stay close enough to the work to ship the first version myself. That's meant reconciling more than $100B in ledger activity to the penny, cutting a 14-day month-end process to a minute, and putting agentic systems into production.

Right now I'm focused on what it takes for an analytics organisation to work AI-natively — not the hype, but the evaluation loops, standards, and habits that make AI dependable when the tools change faster than the org charts do.

I write about data, AI, and the people caught in the middle of it all. If something here was useful, I'd love to hear from you.