About Me

My name is Eoin Woods and I have worked in software engineering of some sort for about 30 years. I’ve been lucky enough to work for a number of great companies during that time, including Endava, UBS, BGI (which is now part of BlackRock), Zuhlke, Intertrust, Sybase, LBMS (briefly) and Groupe Bull.

Today I am an independent consultant. I use my 30 years of industrial experience, and deep links into software engineering research, to help my clients deal with evolving their legacy systems, make their software architecture investment effective, minimise the green house gas emissions from their software systems, and get genuine value from applying AI in the SDLC. If you’d like to discuss hiring me to solve your software engineering problems please get in touch.

Professionally, I am interested in a range of areas including software architecture, legacy systems modernisation, software sustainability (particularly software energy efficiency) and software security.

On the educational front, I have the usual collection of letters after my name, with BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in software engineering and the FBCS, MIET, CEng and CITP professional qualifications. I’m also a fellow of the International Association of Software Architects.

Academically, I have been striving throughout my career to bring research, teaching and practice in computer science and software engineering closer together. As a result of this I have academic affiliations with Imperial College London, where I am an academic visitor, teaching in the Department of Computing, working with Dr Robert Chatley, the Director of Software Engineering Practice, and I am a visiting member of the Enterprise Computing Lab at the University of East London, under the direction of the centre director Professor Rabih Bashroush.

I also maintain research links with a number of universities active in software architecture and sustainable software research, including Birmingham, Lancaster, The Open University and VU in Amsterdam. As a result of these relationships I occasionally act as an external examiner for PhD examinations and sometimes collaborate with their research groups. I am also a regular member of the programme committee for the two premier international software architecture conferences, the International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) and the European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA).

Away from work I am a father with a young person who is now at Cardiff University, perhaps predictably, studying computer science on the MSci course. I am also an active trumpet player, playing a range of styles including wind band, brass band and orchestra, and I like anything with an engine (or an electric motor) that moves quickly, particularly Alfa Romeo, Audi and Jaguar road cars and motor racing, including saloon car, Formula-E and Formula 1.

My first name is difficult to pronounce for many people. Pronounce it in a similar way to the English name “Owen”: ignore the “E” at the begining and pronounce the “o-in”. It is an Irish name as I am originally from Glengormley near Belfast in Northern Ireland. If you were looking for the “other” Eoin Woods (the Irish folk singer) you can find him here and here and probably many other places besides.

If you would like to contact me, use the details on the Contact page.