Max Shannon | Founder & CEO, Rylax

The engineer

Engineering that ships

Max architects, builds and runs software end to end, from the database to the deployed product. He built the Rylax platform, a multi-tenant system for the property industry, and leads its applied-AI work, pairing a software and geospatial engineering background with founder-level commercial fluency.

“A surgical operator.”How peers describe the way he works

Backend & architecture

Systems that hold up

Java 21, Spring Boot and Modulith, PostgreSQL 17: a modular monolith with multi-tenant row-level security.

Frontend & mobile

One codebase, every screen

Flutter across web, iOS and Android, React and Next.js in TypeScript, responsive and accessibility-engineered.

Applied AI & agents

Agents that stay honest

Agentic orchestration and multi-agent workflows, citation-enforced RAG over pgvector, on a zero-retention architecture.

Geospatial & data

Data into decisions

Geospatial fusion and data pipelines that turn planning, price, grid and site data into something you can act on.

Cloud & infrastructure

Shipped and observed

AWS and GCP, Docker and Nginx, Prometheus and Grafana, CI/CD and Firebase, run in production.

Leadership & commercial

Builds and sells

Technical lead on transformation programmes, founder-led sales, pricing models, investor and customer decks.

Track record

Fifteen years, shipping at scale

A career spent building software that carries real load, for millions of users and across two continents, before founding Rylax.

Since 2024 · Founder, CEO / CTO

Rylax

Architected, built and runs an eleven-repository multi-tenant SaaS platform for the property industry, end to end. Winner of the TechIreland AI Challenge 2026 with Fabius.

Cloud transformation lead

Daft.ie

Led the cloud transformation behind Daft.ie, Ireland's largest property marketplace, serving millions of users a month.

Platform scaling

Transportation platforms

Scaled platforms across the US, Canada, Ireland, the UK and Europe, from 400 to 4,000 routes carrying 400,000 people a day, absorbing tenfold growth without a rebuild.

Selected works

Built end to end

Products and systems architected, coded and deployed, from an agentic property-intelligence engine to the applied-AI layer behind the platform.

Alpha

Fabius

Agentic property intelligence for Ireland, and winner of the TechIreland AI Challenge 2026. Planning, prices, grid capacity, materials and site history fused into one source and watched for you by an agent that surfaces what changed and why it matters.

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Live

Lucy

An agentic intelligence layer over a tenant's emails, files and documents: vector search, LLM tool-use and mandatory citation enforcement, built on a zero-retention architecture so no tenant data trains anything.

Live

Planning Intelligence

Monitors Irish planning applications, extracts the facts and observation deadlines, and issues cited plain-language alerts. Doubles as lead generation and as an early read on what competitors are about to build.

Research

Applied AI & computer vision

Agentic control research, real-time object detection and tracking, and multi-agent workflows, all built on one shared engineering method: task decomposition, test-first execution and adversarial review.

The platform

The Rylax platform

The multi-tenant system Max architected and built for developers, agents and solicitors. Several products, one core.

Rylax Pulse

Development and sales management: portfolio and unit pipeline, enquiries, legal and closing, documents and reporting. Architected and built by Max.

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Buyers Portal

Buyer registration and qualification before release, with a live readiness score and an agent review console. Architected and built by Max.

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Resident Hub

Handover, documents and aftercare, from a public development site to an approval-gated residents' area. Architected and built by Max.

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Work with Rylax

Bring a build or a question to Rylax

Founder-level engineering, applied AI and product, delivered through Rylax: from architecture through to a shipped, running system. Based in Dublin, working globally, so time zone is not the obstacle.

A founder who buildsArchitecture, code, deployment and the commercial case, from the founding team.
AI-native deliveryAn agent-assisted method that ships more, faster, without cutting corners.
Straight answersAn honest read on whether it is the right fit, and what it would take.