Summary
Eleanor Mchugh is a seasoned software architect and proprietor with over 25 years of commercial experience and 16 years of focused practice delivering privacy-first identity systems, biometric liveness solutions, and encrypted execution platforms. She designs breakthrough, resource-efficient products and consults on GDPR, privacy by design, and security audits, with deep hands-on expertise in Go, Ruby, SQLite, virtual machine architecture, DNS, and encrypted databases. As director of Innovative Identity Solutions and founder of research ventures like Games With Brains and Game Design Analytics, she blends academic curiosity with pragmatic engineering to solve hard problems in identity and secure storage. An author and presenter on Ruby and Go topics, she is currently finishing A Go Developer's Notebook and co-founded a digital identity startup, demonstrating a sustained commitment to both teaching and applied research. Notably, she charges for interviews to preserve focused, high-value engagements and explicitly avoids AGILE/MVP/agency-style projects, reflecting a preference for deep, technically ambitious work.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc., Applied Physics with Microelectronics and Computing, BSc., Applied Physics with Microelectronics and Computing at Kingston University
Small Business Management, Small Business Management at South Kent College
MSc., Information Systems in a European Context, MSc., Information Systems in a European Context at Canterbury Christ Church University