Colin Wood
Senior, Platform Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Wood is a Senior Platform Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale backend systems, currently based in San Francisco. He led multi-petabyte data migrations and architected a Go-based caching service that cut IOPS by 40% while handling hundreds of terabytes of daily traffic for Atlassian’s Git infrastructure. Comfortable across cloud-native stacks (AWS, Postgres, GraphQL, Terraform), he has driven migrations from monoliths and Python to Go microservices and authored Terraform provider work for Bitbucket in a notable open-source repo. Colin blends hands-on engineering with on-call and cross-team coordination to keep services uninterrupted for millions of users during critical transitions. He’s drawn to performance optimization and internal tooling that scales developer velocity as much as production reliability.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachlors Networking, Bachlors Networking at Pennsylvania College of Technology
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Github Skills (20)
json10
apidoc10
testing10
go-testing10
terraform10
terraformer10
bitbucket-api10
go10
api10
infrastructure-as-code10
cloud-manager9
maven6
fork6
fabric6
hudson6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform
Jun 2016 - Apr 2017
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the development of a Bitbucket provider for Terraform. This involved creating resources for Bitbucket repositories, hooks, and default reviewers, interacting with the Bitbucket API. The user refactored the provider code, improving error handling and utilizing standard marshal/unmarshal methods. Additionally, the user implemented acceptance tests to validate the functionality of the provider.
versionedconfiguration-filescloud-managementawscloud
hashicorp/terraform-provider-bitbucket
Jun 2016 - Aug 2020
Terraform Bitbucket provider
Contributions:36 commits, 22 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 years 2 months
terraform-providerproviderbitbucketterraform
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