About Me

My name is Eoin Woods and I have worked in software engineering of some sort for 20 years. I’ve been lucky enough to work for a number of great companies during that time, including Groupe Bull, Sybase, InterTrust, Zuhlke and BGI. I also worked as an independent consultant, through my own consultancy company, Artechra Limited, from 2002 until mid-2004.

Today, I’m a lead software architect at UBS Investment Bank, in the Global Synthetic Equity business area (which covers financial products like equity swaps and exchange traded funds), working mainly on our equity swaps platform, SABRE. Previously at UBS, I’ve worked in and led an EMEA regional architecture group and worked as a software and enterprise architect in the futures and options technology group.

Professionally, I am interested in a range of areas including software architecture, distributed systems, data management and IT security. On the educational front, I have the usual collection of letters after my name, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in software engineering and the FBCS, MIEE (or MIET today), CEng and CITP professional qualifications. I’m also a fellow of the International Association of Software Architects.

Outside work, I‘m an enthusiastic amateur trumpet player (playing both big-band jazz and classical music) and I like anything with an engine that moves quickly (particularly Alfa Romeo road cars and saloon car and Formula 1 racing).

In case you were wondering, you pronounce my first name “Owen”. It‘s an Irish name (I‘m originally from Glengormley near Belfast in Northern Ireland). To find out more about Irish names, take a look at the Irish FAQ.

If you‘d like to contact me, the best way is probably via email.

For those interested in how this site was designed and created, it’s a WordPress 3 based site, hosted on my own 1&1 hosting site, with a custom theme designed by Alex Rozanski.