Brandon Wood
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Wood is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building web and high-performance computing systems, currently driving engineering work at Datadog in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has held progressive technical and leadership roles including Staff Software Engineer at The New York Times and VP of Engineering at a Building Engines company, and earlier founded a geospatial-focused startup, demonstrating both hands-on development and product-facing leadership. His contributions to open source include improving test coverage for depcheck to better analyze ES6 imports, reflecting a practical focus on reliability and edge-case handling in developer tooling. With a background that spans academic research and water resources engineering to full-stack production systems, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective to solving complex engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at University of Florida
German
Github Skills (5)
nodejs10
javascript10
s610
jestjs10
testing10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
depcheck/depcheck
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Check your npm module for unused dependencies
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brandon's commits primarily focus on improving the test suite for the `depcheck` project. They added tests to cover various ES6 import styles, ensuring the tool correctly identifies unused dependencies in ES6 modules. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to unsupported syntax and clarified the expected behavior of the tests, demonstrating a focus on testing edge cases and improving the reliability of the dependency checking process. Their work ensures that `depcheck` accurately analyzes ES6 code for unused dependencies.
dependenciesunusednpm-packagenpm-modulenodejs
myfossil/myfossil-theme
Aug 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 330 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 1 month
wordpresswordpress-theme
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