Dan Woods
VP, ML And AI Platforms
Naples, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarDan Woods is a seasoned technology executive with 13 years of experience building enterprise-grade platforms, currently leading ML and AI platforms as VP at CVS Health after senior engineering and security leadership roles at Maersk, Target, Netflix and the Biden campaign. He combines deep hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—evident from contributions to notable open-source projects like Spinnaker and Ratpack—with strategic leadership in cybersecurity and supply chain transformation. Dan has a track record of architecting resilient, scalable systems and improving developer tooling, CI/CD and orchestration platforms used across industries. Based in Naples, Florida, he blends practical code-level problem solving with executive oversight, and unusually for a VP, still contributes meaningful patches to core open-source infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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api-design10
groovy10
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testing10
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Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/clouddriver
Apr 2014 - Aug 2017
read and write operations across cloud providers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:577 commits, 7 PRs, 1 comment in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dan contributed to test coverage within the `spinnaker/clouddriver` repository, focusing on improving the testing of AWS deployment handlers. The commits demonstrate work on unit tests for various AWS deployment features, including Amazon deployers, and atomic operations related to the deployment workflow, like the shrinking of a cluster or tagging an ASG. Their work focused heavily on ensuring test coverage and stability for critical components of the service.
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spinnaker/orca
Jun 2014 - Jan 2015
Orchestration engine
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:259 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Dan's commits primarily focus on improving the Spinnaker Orca orchestration engine. Their work involved updating existing code, adding copyright notices, and refactoring to improve maintainability. They also made improvements to deployment strategies through configuration. Further, the user contributed to the build process for the project. Their contributions seem to span both back-end application development and build process/DevOps tasks.
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