Summary
Eoan O'dea is a PhD researcher in Sustainable Software Engineering and a full-stack engineer trainer with nine years of hands-on experience building and scaling websites, web apps, and mobile/hybrid applications. As founder and director of WebSpace since 2016, he leads an international team delivering digital products and consulting to SMEs, governments and agencies across Europe. He combines practical teaching roles (Le Wagon, Bright Network) with applied research in Green IT, marrying usability and accessibility goals to environmental-aware software practices. Comfortable across JavaScript, React, Node, Flutter, Java and WordPress, he moves between mentoring developers and shipping production systems. His multi-university master’s/PhD pathway spans Italy and the Netherlands, reflecting a deliberate blend of creative computing, media informatics and sustainability-focused engineering. Outside the lab and agency, he quietly channels an entrepreneurial streak—founding education platforms and teaching piano—bringing both curiosity and people-first leadership to technical problems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Medieninformatik, Medieninformatik at Stuttgart Media University
Bachelor's degree, Creative Computing, Bachelor's degree, Creative Computing at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Masters, Software Engineering & Green IT, Masters, Software Engineering & Green IT at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Masters, Software Engineering & Green IT, Masters, Software Engineering & Green IT at University of Amsterdam
Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at Belvedere College S.J.
Doctor of Philosophy, Sustainable Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, Sustainable Software Engineering at University of Groningen
Doctor of Philosophy, Sustainable Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, Sustainable Software Engineering at Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
English, Italian