Daniel Wood
Software Engineer at OpConnect
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Wood is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience, currently building products at OpConnect after leading cloud and production efforts as a Senior Full Stack Engineer at EVgo. He excels at moving quickly from high-level feature lists to working prototypes, favoring hands-on learning and iterative improvement over lengthy design cycles. Comfortable across on-prem and AWS environments, he has improved reliability and developer velocity through test coverage, reduced complexity, and reusable components. Daniel contributes to notable open-source tooling—adding broad filetype support to the widely used ripgrep utility—demonstrating attention to practical developer workflows. Based in Oregon, he pursues continuous learning (including a Deep Learning nanodegree) and enjoys solving problems with creative, less-obvious solutions that accelerate teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Neumont College of Computer ScienceDeepLearning Nanodegree Computer Science, DeepLearning Nanodegree Computer Science at Udacity
English, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
56reputation
4kreached
5answers
3questions
Github Skills (15)
rust10
regex10
searching10
command-line9
gitignore8
git6
heroku6
bot-framework6
python-chess6
eclipse6
chess6
hotkeys6
android6
python6
collaboration6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
BurntSushi/ripgrep
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 13 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing file type support within the `ripgrep` tool. They added several new file extensions to the `src/types.rs` and `ignore/src/types.rs` files, including `.config`, `.spark`, `.md`, `.pdf`, `.cs`, and `.mak`. This indicates a contribution towards expanding the search capabilities of `ripgrep` to cover a wider range of file types and use cases.
ripgrepgitignorelibgit2text-searchack
theamazingfedex/keyfaster
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:16 PRs, 80 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
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