Derrick Wood
Managing Director at Cowen Inc.
Manhattan Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerrick Wood is a technology-focused executive and Managing Director at Cowen Inc., guiding data-driven and AI-enabled initiatives across enterprise software, SaaS, big data analytics, and observability. His finance background informs his tech leadership, with years as a senior equities researcher at SIG and as a partner and analyst at Pacific Growth Equities. He has held senior roles at Wedbush Securities and Van Kasper, with early experiences in investment banking and international trade, giving him a broad cross-functional view. Based in Manhattan Beach, California, he combines hands-on leadership with a data-first approach to scale platforms that support trading, risk, and enterprise operations. He holds an Economics degree from UC Davis and is a Chartered Financial Analyst, earned in 2004. He pursues Generative AI, AIOps, and security analytics to drive automation and resilience in complex enterprise ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at University of California, DavisChartered Financial Analyst
Github Skills (14)
teamcity9
fluent-interface8
ocean7
integrate7
nuget6
continuous-integration5
csharp5
dotnet5
devops4
publish3
react2
nodejs2
typescript2
javascript2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
DerrickGWood/OpsVision
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
publishreactjavascriptanywherenodejs
DerrickGWood/statuscake.client
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
apidotnetstatuscakecommunicationmonitoring-service
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