Hugh Eaves
Lead Software Architect at Tridium
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHugh Eaves is a Lead Software Architect based in Richmond, Virginia, with over 25 years in software development and 13 years in senior engineering and architecture roles. He has led architecture and advanced engineering at Tridium since 2016, currently shaping platform and product-level design decisions. His background spans academia and enterprise IT—moving from applications architecture at Virginia Commonwealth University to graduate research and then into industry consulting and retail systems—giving him a rare blend of research rigor and production focus. Hugh excels at translating complex requirements into robust, maintainable systems and mentoring teams through large-scale technical transitions. He brings deep institutional knowledge of long-lived systems and a pragmatic engineering style that prioritizes reliability and evolvability. Outside day-to-day delivery, his career shows a consistent thread of bridging applied research with practical software architecture.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Virginia Commonwealth University
Github Skills (60)
javascript10
robotics10
parser10
px410
autopilot10
python10
mavlink10
plane10
rover10
java10
grammar10
language-recognition10
php10
parsing10
parser-generator10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
biomojo/biomojo
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:53 commits, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 7 months
hugheaves/mios_smart-switch
Jul 2012 - May 2014
Contributions:23 commits in 1 year 9 months
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