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.

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” in a single syllable like “own”. It is an Irish name as I am originally from Glengormley just north of Belfast in Northern Ireland.

I am an independent consultant. I use my 30 years of industrial experience and deep links into software engineering research, as a CTO advisor and consultant, to help my clients deal with difficult problems. Most of my work involves helping my clients to make their software architecture investment more effective, deal with evolving their legacy systems, minimise the green house gas emissions from their software systems, and maximise the effectiveness of their software engineering work. 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, software security, legacy systems modernisation and software sustainability (particularly software energy efficiency).

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.

I have strived throughout my career to bring research, teaching and practice in computer science and software engineering closer together. Honestly, I don’t think I have been that successful at bringing them together. However, as a result of my efforts, I have wonderful 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.

In addition, this work to bridge the research and practice divide means that I have been able to 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. From 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) and was co-chair of the Software Architecture in Practice track for the ICSA 2026 conference, with my applied research colleague Prof. Andrea Capiluppi, from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

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 and who seems to be heading for a career in cybersecurity. I am also an active trumpet player, playing in a varied range of groups including wind band, brass band, brass ensemble 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.

If you were looking for the “other” Eoin Woods (the wonderful Irish folk singer) you can find him on his main site here on BandCamp, here on YouTube, here on Greystones Guide, here on Instagram and here on SoundCloud and probably many other places besides.

If you would like to contact me, please use the details on the Contact page. I look forward to hearing from you.