Connor Wood
Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Wood is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years’ experience building and maintaining reliable microservices at Google and safety-critical embedded systems at Rolls-Royce. He combines deep systems-level interests—operating systems, compilers/interpreters, and network stacks—with hands-on Rust development, including writing an AML interpreter for the RedoxOS kernel and contributing a Rust backend for the widely used Kaitai Struct compiler. Connor’s background in RAF Air Cadets and community volunteering (teaching coding at the BBC Coding Club) informs his practical leadership, organization, and mentorship skills. He holds a First-class BSc in Computer Science from the University of Essex and brings a rare mix of production SRE rigor and low-level systems craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, First w/ Honours, BSc, Computer Science, First w/ Honours at University of Essex
English
Github Skills (8)
compiler-design10
kaitai-struct10
rust10
code-generation10
data-structure9
data-structures9
algorithms7
scala3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_compiler
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Kaitai Struct: compiler to translate .ksy => .cpp / .cs / .dot / .go / .java / .js / .lua / .nim / .php / .pm / .py / .rb
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Connor primarily focused on implementing the Rust compiler for the Kaitai Struct project. Their contributions include developing significant portions of the Rust output compilation process, implementing various features like instance methods, enum declarations, and fixing bugs related to string formatting and type conversions. The user worked on adding error checking and integrating new user-defined types, enhancing the functionality of the Kaitai Struct compiler in the Rust language. This involves code generation for data structures and associated functionalities.
luacppdotnimc99
CWood1/kernel
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:19 pushes, 7 branches in 5 months
kernelmicrokernelredox
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