Building Business-Critical Software Since 2015
Founded in Newcastle upon Tyne, we design and build bespoke software platforms for startups, SMEs, and enterprise organisations with complex technical and operational requirements. For over a decade, we’ve helped our clients turn ambitious ideas into reliable, scalable systems that power real businesses.
Trusted By Industry Leaders for Over 10 Years
Our Journey:
Building Software That Lasts
Founded to Build Software Properly
Founded in 2015 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Woods & Walker was built to create software properly. From the very beginning, we've focused on designing and delivering bespoke platforms that solve real business problems — not off-the-shelf solutions or quick fixes.
Trusted Across Industries
Over the years, we've partnered with startups, SMEs, and enterprise organisations to build internal systems, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and complex, business-critical applications. Being UK-based allows us to collaborate closely with clients while remaining flexible and responsive, whether projects are local, across the UK, or international.
Engineering-Led Excellence
Our independent, engineering-led approach means we stay deeply involved in every project, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and built to deliver long-term business value.
Years building business-critical software
Based in the UK, working with clients across the country and internationally
Engineering-led, independent, and focused on long-term value
Leadership That Delivers:
Guiding Our Projects and People
Oliver Woods
Co-founder & CEO
Leads company direction, client relationships, and delivery strategy. With over 10 years in software delivery, focuses on ensuring projects deliver real business impact, not just technical outputs.
James Walker
Co-founder & CTO
Responsible for technical strategy, architecture, and engineering standards. Oversees system design, scalability, and long-term maintainability across all projects.
Rhyan Lockey
Lead Full Stack Developer
Leads hands-on development across major projects, ensuring high-quality execution, clean architecture, and reliable delivery across frontend and backend systems.
Why Clients Choose Woods & Walker:
Technology partners for the long term
A Technology Partner, Not a Project Vendor
We work best when we're treated as an extension of your team rather than a one-off supplier. Our role is to help you make the right technical decisions over time, not just deliver what's asked and disappear.
That often means contributing strategic input beyond the brief, challenging assumptions when needed, and designing systems with future change in mind. While we do take on well-defined, single projects where the scope and budget are right, most of our work is built around long-term partnerships where software needs to evolve alongside the business.
Built for Reliability and Continuity
We're deliberately a small, senior team; large enough to deliver complex platforms, but small enough that every project matters. There's no handover between sales and delivery, no churn of junior developers, and no loss of context six months in.
Clients value us because we're consistent, dependable, and easy to work with. We show up, integrate quickly, and keep momentum without unnecessary noise or process for process' sake.
Engineering Depth That Accelerates Delivery
Our team is comfortable operating inside established development environments and processes. We regularly embed alongside in-house teams, working with existing codebases, infrastructure, and workflows, whether that's Git-based version control, containerised environments, or modern CI/CD pipelines.
This means we can hit the ground running, add value early, and scale our involvement up or down as required without disruption.
Trusted by Our Clients:
Hear What They Have to Say
The team at Woods and Walker were friendly, approachable and communicative throughout the project. They were responsive, knowledgeable and a genuine pleasure to work with. It was very refreshing to work with a smaller organisation like us where we don't have layers of people to work with and where we can get stuff done without fuss."
Head of Technology
We've had the pleasure of working with Woods & Walker on various projects and their expertise and skill in designing and developing web platforms is truly exceptional. A knowledgeable and friendly team, we highly recommend their services!"
Founding Director