Brett Woodward
Founding Engineer at Stealth AI Startup
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Woodward is a founding engineer and seasoned technology leader with 12 years building production-grade web and backend systems across startups and nonprofits. He has held CTO and founding roles at AI and AI-art companies (Civitai, Zavant) and now helps launch a stealth AI startup from Florida, blending product-first engineering with operational rigor. His work spans notifications and backend architectures—evidenced by contributions to the high-profile civitai repo where he implemented robust comment and review notification flows. Earlier roles include scaling systems and developer-facing infrastructure at consumer platforms and impact-focused orgs, plus hands-on blockchain and server-side experience from a prior CTO role. A Wharton-trained finance graduate who also studied Chinese, Brett pairs business fluency with technical depth and a habit of "loving to build things" that drives rapid, pragmatic shipping.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese Language, Chinese Language at Beijing Institute of EducationBSc Finance, BSc Finance at The Wharton School
Chinese
Stackoverflow
378reputation
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Github Skills (18)
postgresql10
back-end-development10
databases10
querying10
database10
prisma9
notification9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
grouping6
drizzle6
unity-game-engine6
bun6
orm6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
civitai/civitai
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
A repository of models, textual inversions, and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 175 PRs, 690 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Brett's primary focus appears to be on back-end development, specifically within the context of a notification system. The commits demonstrate the implementation of new features related to comment notifications and review responses. This involved adding new notification types, preparing database queries, and defining the structure for message and URL generation.
textualaisocial-networkstable-diffusion
flipperbw/hearthstone
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 9 days
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