About

Who am I?

I’m a technology professional living in Dublin, Ireland with broad experience across management, commercial, technical and delivery within the software industry. For the past ten or so years my head has been in the martech vertical mainly on the commercial side of email but also some SMS and push.

I started my career in systems (mostly Unix) and data networking at the beginning of the internet and consequently dot-com boom in the late 90’s. Following that I spent 8 years as the CTO of a application hosting and mailbox provider where I built carrier grade spam filtering and messaging systems.

In 2005 I co-founded Ireland’s first domain registrar for the (then new) .EU ccTLD.

In 2016 I founded an software company that monitored the availability of corporate email infrastructure. That pivoted into an email marketing and deliverability practice. I went all-in and even wrote a book about deliverability, which currently has a second edition with a third in planning.

Since 2022 I head up deliverability for Upland Software - we have two ESPs, Adestra and Second Street.

See my LinkedIn for the full professional history.

Ken O’Driscoll, June 2026.

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I don’t really use social media.

Slack: I am active on Email Geeks slack. You’ll find me hanging out on #deliverability with all of the other usual suspects.

Mailing lists: Lurk and occasionally reply on Mailop. On a whole host of email related IETF Work Group lists but don’t have much time to engage these days; that may change with DKIM2.

LinkedIn and are the best ways to connect directly.

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This site uses the Hugo CMS with the Hugo Coder theme. It is hosted on AWS using a mixture of CloudFront, S3, Route53, IAM, and ACM. The source is kept in Github. I wrote about the setup here.