Brian Woods
Backend Developer at Individual Contributor
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Woods is a backend developer and CTO-in-practice with 11+ years building production-grade crypto and distributed systems, currently pursuing an AI master's at UC Berkeley. He combines deep blockchain protocol experience—IBC/Cosmos architecture, EVM work and staking/loan platforms—with practical backend chops in Go, Python, C/C++ and TypeScript. His open-source contributions include moving Augur’s node app into the browser using web workers and PouchDB to enable a fully decentralized, client-side blockchain client. Comfortable spanning DevOps, systems debugging, and product-facing engineering, he has led engineering teams and launched cross-platform products from mobile wallets to decentralized finance primitives. Based in Redmond, he brings a rare mix of legacy Internet-scale systems (Yahoo mail/MTA) and cutting-edge crypto/AI integration, positioning him to bridge research-driven AI work with robust, real-world infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information and Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Information and Data Science, Artificial Intelligence at University of California, BerkeleyBS, Computer Science, Economics, BS, Computer Science, Economics at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
react9
webworker9
nodejs9
websocket8
back-end-development8
backend8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AugurProject/augur
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Augur v2 - Prediction Market Protocol and Client
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 73 PRs, 182 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the Augur project's frontend and state management aspects. Their work included fixing build issues related to TypeScript definitions, refactoring the augur-state module to work in the browser, and enabling it to run as a web worker. They also implemented features for http and https endpoints and incorporated a websocket endpoint to enhance real-time data updates. This demonstrates a focus on improving the project's usability and backend structure.
ethereum-contractreactaugurpredictiondapp
brianosaurus/crypto
May 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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