Charles Wood
Senior Software Developer at Intentional Excellence Productions LLC
Lehi, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Wood is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing Ruby on Rails applications, currently driving engineering work at PrizePicks from Lehi, Utah. He combines deep backend expertise—PostgreSQL, background job optimization, Meilisearch full-text search—and modern frontend patterns like Stimulus/Hotwire to deliver pragmatic, testable systems. Charles has led migrations and deployments (Capistrano, Kamal, Traefik) and cut costly processing times through intelligent queuing and refactors, demonstrating a focus on performance and operational reliability. Beyond engineering, he founded and grew a long-running developer podcast network (Devchat.tv) that cultivated technical communities and sponsorships, revealing strengths in product, outreach, and team building. His background ranges from fintech and education platforms to bespoke consulting projects, and he often steps into project leadership or mentoring roles when teams need direction.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Orem High SchoolBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
Italian
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Github Skills (52)
eleventy10
tailwindcss10
hotel-booking9
nunjucks9
static-site9
crud9
ruby-on-rails8
blog-engine8
npm-package8
jekyll8
javascript8
site-generator8
markdown8
admin8
ruby7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
devchattv/freelancerstopics
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 13 comments in 9 months
cmaxw/text_to_drip
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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