Christian Wood
Staff Software Engineer at Sunrun
Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Wood is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack systems across energy, media, and academia, now focused on scaling software for clean energy at Sunrun. He combines hands-on implementation with project leadership, shaping the technical designs, delivery processes, and cross-functional relationships that drive measurable outcomes. His background includes roles at EVgo, Star Tribune, and Twin Cities PBS, reflecting an ability to move between product-driven newsrooms and mission-driven energy domains. Based in Minnesota, he brings a practical interest in energy, climate, and transportation, pairing environmental studies and Spanish from UW–Madison with deep engineering experience. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex domain needs into reliable, shipped software rather than theoretical prototypes. Notably, his career path blends public-sector and nonprofit beginnings with production engineering at scale, giving him a broad perspective on user-centered system design.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Spanish Language and Literature Environmental Studies, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Spanish Language and Literature Environmental Studies at University of Wisconsin-MadisonCloquet Senior High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
gutenberg9
webapp7
transcript5
data-api4
wrapping4
podcast3
embedded2
php2
api2
pbs1
player1
raspberry-pi1
broadcast1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
twincitiespublictelevision/libmvault
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Classes for structured MVault API data
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apiphpdata-apistructured
cwood821/til
Jul 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:189 pushes, 3 branches, 2 tags in 3 years 7 months
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