Rob Wood Email & Phone Number

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

From Sr. developer, learned all IT systems in months, taking ownership & responsibility, rapidly promoted to leadership, emerging as a change agent. System architect, product engineer, lead devops/platform engineer, lead/principal software engineer, and manager. • With a $3M contract secured having independently designed and built an SaaS platform, spun off a multi-tenant clone, tripling the legacy client count as a recurring revenue stream.• Increased development velocity 1500%, optimizing team productivity by redesigning legacy dev environments, modernizing to better implement containerization and CI/CD principles.•Cut 90% of deployment time and effort, transforming deployment and maintenance via DevOps/GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines, eliminating 75% of the effort and risk in prod systems.• Reduced cloud costs by 60% and optimized system reliability and security, by moving to multi-account AWS Organization, simplifying, isolating, and decoupling workloads and support.

Los Gatos, California, United States

Led a cross-functional team in planning, designing, and building a greenfield redesign of the Netflix supplier onboarding app. Eliminated 99% of issues and invented new features.• Accelerated supplier onboarding by 60%, eliminating 99% of system issues and streamlining the entire app and UI/API using React and Java Spring Boot.• Improved production stability and ensured long-term system reliability by getting the legacy system working with the standardized Netflix “paved path” dev system and tooling.

Houghton, Michigan, United States

Troubleshooting and correcting issues in data ingestion/dashboard displays for a nationwide solar panel fleet that had scaled exponentially, creating more data than naive solutions could handle.• Boosted data ingestion speed by up to 500%, and enhanced system stability by 75% by diligent application of best practices and patterns, optimizing SQL queries and patterns.• Implemented a modern BI system, over legacy ETL, ensuring seamless continued data sharing with new protocols, restoring the system’s impaired observability & maintainability.

Escanaba, Michigan, United States

Led end-to-end development on diverse client projects, devising inventive and novel tactics and processes to avoid obstacles and drive technical solutions that aligned with unique client needs.

Maintained, improved, and added features to a sizable intranet, as well as a data-driven print to mail system beginning with name lists, ending with ready to ship bulk mail flats in the warehouse.• Increased franchisee ZIP/mailer sales by 40% and franchisee engagement by 60% by allowing unlimited targeting level, in mailings, down to the individual envelope/address.• Drove a 35% increase in ZIP/mailer sales, saving hundreds of staff hours, with operational benefits from a user-friendly self-service targeting/visualization GUI for mailers using Google Maps.