Ed Woodward
Software Engineer For Openstax At Rice University
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Woodward is a versatile software engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading development efforts for OpenStax at Rice University, where he moved from Android developer and technical director roles into engineering and management. He blends hands-on expertise in Python, Ruby on Rails, and Android with deep familiarity in Agile and Scrum, delivering educational technology used at scale. His background includes senior architecture and application leadership at JPMorgan Chase, giving him experience across both enterprise and open educational projects. Outside of university work he runs Acrylic Goat Software, maintaining a long-term passion for Android and personal projects documented on his blog. Notably, he pairs creative problem-solving from a retired development team leader perspective with continued active coding, making him equally comfortable mentoring teams and shipping production code.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B. A., B. A. at Louisiana Tech UniversityM. S., M. S. at LSU ShreveportM. M., M. M. at Wichita State University
Github Skills (3)
android-app4
kotlin3
android2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
acrylicgoat/DroidDesignGuide
Jul 2012 - May 2013
Contributions:70 commits in 10 months
wrapandroidandroid-appkotlindeveloper-guide
acrylicgoat/acrylicgoat.github.io
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:18 PRs, 40 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 7 months
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