Summary
Chris Oldwood is a seasoned software developer contractor with over 30 years of hands-on experience building front- and back-office systems, shrink-wrapped products, and cloud-hosted services primarily in C, C++, and C#. He blends deep Windows native expertise with more recent Linux and DevOps-focused work, having modernised build and deployment pipelines, cloud migrations, and test automation across finance, security, and SaaS domains. A frequent ACCU contributor and conference speaker, he pairs practical mentoring and team coaching with pragmatic engineering—often stepping in as temporary tech lead to raise delivery quality. Notable projects include architecting grid-based credit and risk engines that process large Monte Carlo workloads and improving accessibility and test coverage for complex C++ applications. Based in Huntingdonshire, he balances long-term systems thinking with a penchant for tooling and open-source utilities he maintains in spare time.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Diploma, Telecommunications and Information Systems, Postgraduate Diploma, Telecommunications and Information Systems at University of Essex