Brittany Woods

Engineering Executive

Brittany is an Engineering Executive based in London with a strong passion for DevOps, DevEx, and Platform Engineering.

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Brittany Woods

About Me

Brittany Woods is an Engineering Director currently based in London. With a career spanning technical and leadership roles across the financial and e-commerce sectors, she has been a passionate advocate for DevOps—both within the organizations she’s served and the broader tech community. Brittany has led initiatives to enhance developer experience, establish and scale platform engineering functions, and foster innovation. She places a strong emphasis on improving organizational culture, a theme reflected in her public speaking engagements. Her thought leadership has also been recognized in the book 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, where she contributed an article on breaking down silos in modern tech teams.

My experience

Brittany brings a broad range of experience across both technical and leadership roles in technology. She has led teams of Site Reliability Engineers, Data Engineers, Software Developers, Infrastructure Engineers, and Cloud Engineers—as well as the engineering leaders who support them. Brittany is equally comfortable in technical and non-technical conversations and excels at developing forward-looking strategies that connect engineering execution with business outcomes.

  • AWS

  • Azure

  • Docker

  • Jenkins

  • Terraform

  • Github

  • 2024 - PresentH&R Block

    Associate Engineering Director, Ireland

  • 2023 - 2024The LEGO Group

    Senior Engineering Manager

  • 2020 - 2023H&R Block

    Lead Engineer & Engineering Manager

  • 2016 - 2020CARFAX

    Automation Engineer

  • 2022 - PresentGeorgetown University

    Masters Technology Management

  • 2020 - 2022Missouri State University

    Bachelors Information Technology

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Interested in working together?

I am always open to chatting about how we can work together. Are you looking for a speaker for your conference or event? Are you looking for expertise in digital transformation, DevOps, or Cloud Automation? Feel free to get in touch!