Summary
Calvin Woods is a software engineer in Salem, Oregon with nearly four years at FamilySearch and eight years of overall technical experience, specializing in Java backends and React front-ends. He holds a B.S. in Bioinformatics from Brigham Young University, where he combined research and teaching-focused tooling—building the biograder Python package—to make bioinformatics assignments more accessible. At FamilySearch he’s worked across web development, security systems, and Python package development, thriving in collaborative teams and shipping pragmatic solutions. Comfortable moving between user-facing UI work and backend architecture, he brings a research-infused mindset to production engineering and a proven knack for turning complex workflows into usable developer tools.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bioinformatics, Computer Software Engineering, Bioinformatics, Computer Software Engineering at Brigham Young University
English, Korean