Richard Woodhead
Cloud Platform Product Owner
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Woodhead is a Cloud Platform Product Owner with 8+ years leading technically complex software and API products and over two decades in software roles, currently driving the roadmap and delivery of a multi-tenant cloud platform at Waters Corporation. He specialises in scaling product ownership—aligning multiple product owners and distributed teams across Manchester, Boston and Romania—to deliver regulated, enterprise-grade solutions for life sciences. Richard blends hands-on API and SDK experience with facilitative leadership, continuous delivery practices and DEEP backlog definition to turn competing stakeholder priorities into auditable roadmaps. He has a track record of guiding digital transformation through hackathons, guilds and process evolution, and brings practical systems engineering roots from early careers in integration and J2EE development. Notably, he pairs regulatory-aware product delivery (FDA market experience) with a history of building commercially shipped APIs and platform services.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) 2:1 Computing Science and Surveying and Mapping Science (Jointly), BSc (Hons) 2:1 Computing Science and Surveying and Mapping Science (Jointly) at Newcastle UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RichardDWoodhead/captain-console
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:68 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
RichardDWoodhead/vefforritun-3
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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