Benjamin Wood
Distinguished Engineer at Apple
Sausalito, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Wood is a Distinguished Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems and infrastructure, currently shaping platform-level work at Apple. He progressed through hands-on engineering and leadership roles at Apple from software engineer to principal and now distinguished engineer, bringing practical delivery experience from startups to large-scale product teams. His background spans cloud-native services, performance-focused systems, and operational engineering honed at companies like Mesosphere, Creative Market, and SOASTA. Benjamin pairs an applied mathematics degree with a maker’s mindset—from aircraft maintenance and manufacturing-floor work to shipping production software—giving him uncommon depth in systems thinking and pragmatism. Based in Sausalito, he quietly combines deep technical ownership with cross-functional mentorship, often thriving on solving messy infrastructure problems rather than headline features.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (81)
python10
runc10
declarative10
elasticsearch10
mesos10
mesosphere10
stateful-containers10
kata-containers10
kubernetes10
spark10
cassandra10
kafka10
tensorflow10
package10
universe10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DAddYE/trez
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 11 months
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