Simon Woodward
Tech Sabbatical
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Woodward is a seasoned product and technical leader with three decades in software and a recent tech sabbatical to rewire his hands-on engineering skills for modern DevOps, AI-assisted development and LLM-powered UX. He has led product portfolios and platform transformations at scale—driving daily releases at Zoopla, building clinical and telehealth platforms at Babylon, and multiplying product revenue post-acquisition at BMC/Tideway. Simon specialises in translating messy commercial priorities into clear value propositions, focused roadmaps and scalable architectures while growing high-performing product and engineering teams. He combines deep customer-facing market insight with practical delivery experience, from building CRM suites at King to decommissioning cost-heavy Kubernetes estates at BMC. Based in the UK, he pairs strategic product leadership with recent hands-on work in conversational graph queries and AI-enabled developer practices—an uncommon blend that keeps strategy grounded in technical reality.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma, Information Technology, Computer Software Engineering, Higher National Diploma, Information Technology, Computer Software Engineering at Technikon Witwatersrand
English, French, Afrikaans
Github Skills (145)
r10
development-environment10
ide10
data-visualisation10
rstudio10
grammar10
charts9
htmlwidgets9
plotly9
data-visualization9
systems-biology9
visualization9
r-package9
webgl9
regl9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
woodwards/csl2cpp
Aug 2018 - Apr 2022
Scripts to convert CSL/ACSL/ACSLX code to C++/cpp/Rcpp using R/RStudio
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
cpprstudiorcppcpp11csl
woodwards/bach_trend
Sep 2019 - Oct 2021
BACH model for Bayesian Chemistry-assisted Hydrograph separation with linear trend in concentrations
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
chemistrylinearassistedtrendseparation
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