About Asgharian
A software company in Dublin, run by one engineer. That’s me, Malachi. I build the system a business runs on in three-week sprints, and you own it from day one.
How I got here
I grew up in Ireland, part Iranian, and started building things to see what I could make. The first was a game on the Play Store that a thousand people downloaded. Then someone asked me to build a web app that matched advertisers with content creators, and that was the first job anyone paid me for.
Since then I’ve built software for more than twenty businesses, a lot of it around payments and online shops, and filmed much of it for my YouTube channel, Malachi Rails. Over a million people have watched real products get built there, start to finish, with the code on screen. I was a Web Summit scholar in Lisbon, and I pitched Glyn, an AI dashboard for startups, on stage at NovaUCD.
Asgharian came out of watching friends run decent businesses on spreadsheets that had stopped fitting the job. There is no sales team. The person on the first call writes the code and answers the phone a year later.
I speak English, Irish, Spanish and Persian, so the call can be in whichever suits you. Outside of work I put a team into the Longford GAA Golf Classic.
Who I’ve worked for
Two people and two companies, and what they built.
Pádraig Brady
Co-founded Obelisk in Cavan in 1996 with two riggers and an office manager, and built it into an engineering firm of 250 people across Ireland and the UK, working on the telecoms and power networks. Sold it to Constructel Visabeira in 2022.
Ronan Kilduff
Co-founded Elgin Energy and ran it for sixteen years, from an office in Dublin to more than 15 GW of solar and battery projects across Ireland, the UK, Germany, Italy and Australia, before a Danish green-energy investor took a controlling stake in 2024.
Finsbury Infrastructure
Develops data-centre campuses run on renewable power, from offices in Dublin and London, with projects in Dublin, London, Madrid and near Milan. The team has delivered 5 GW of renewable projects across Europe and Australia. Michael Moore, who led solar development at Elgin Energy, is managing director; Peter Connolly, who ran a two-billion-pound division at ICON, is financial director; Ronan Murtagh delivered projects of up to €300m at Arup and Tobin; Ivan O'Keeffe came from Bank of America and Intercom.
Consulting.ie
A Dublin consultancy that builds custom software around a business's most expensive problems, scoped up front and live within thirty days.
In dates
- 2021
- The first paid build: a web app matching advertisers with content creators, for someone who asked.
- 2022
- Went freelance. More than twenty businesses since, most of them around payments and online shops.
- 2023
- Malachi Rails, the channel and the course site behind it. Over a million views since.
- 2025
- Web Summit scholar in Lisbon. Pitched Glyn, an AI dashboard for startups, on stage at NovaUCD.
- 2026
- Joined Finsbury Infrastructure in June and Consulting.ie in September, alongside the work here.
- Now
- Asgharian, in Dublin. One engineer, three-week sprints, and the client owns the result.
Where the work comes from
A business ends up running from a schedule in one tool, a tracker in another, a price list in Excel and the real answer in someone’s inbox. Every handover between those is a person, and that person becomes the bottleneck.
The fix is usually the same shape: one system, built around how the place already works, connected to the tools that are staying. That is what I do.
How I work
You own it
The code and everything it runs on are in your name from day one.
Buy it if it can be bought
If a product already does the job well, I'll say so and wire it in rather than build a worse one.
The price is agreed first
One call, then a written scope and a number. You keep the scope whether you go ahead or not.
Something runs by day 15
By day 15 a piece of it is running on your data and someone on your team is using it.
Every figure has a source
A number in a report links back to the record it came from. Anything automated leaves a log.
It's never finished
The business changes, so the system does. You pay for the work when there is work, not for access.
Get in touch
Half an hour on a call and you’ll know what I’d build first and roughly what it would cost. Ring +353 89 222 5728 or email mal@asgharian.ie.