Hugo Wood
Software Engineer at Zenika
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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RockstarHugo Wood is a pragmatic software engineer based in Nantes, France, with 14 years of experience building reliable backend systems. Currently at Zenika Nantes, he combines hands-on coding with thoughtful engineering practices and a collaborative, human-centered approach. He contributes to notable open-source projects like FasterXML/jackson-databind, where he improved deserialization internals by implementing and stabilizing an experimental array delegate creator and cleaning up delegate type computation. Hugo’s strengths lie in refactoring for maintainability and solving subtle bugs that improve long-term library robustness. Comfortable across complex Java ecosystems, he values clear, reusable code and incremental improvements that benefit large user bases. He also brings a down-to-earth personality to technical teams, balancing solid engineering with practical team collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (19)
json10
java10
javas10
angularjs9
routes6
sessionstorage6
nodejs6
self-signed6
dictionary6
python6
falcor6
ssl6
npm6
javascript6
testing6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
FasterXML/jackson-databind
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
General data-binding package for Jackson (2.x): works on streaming API (core) implementation(s)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hugo's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Jackson Databind library, specifically regarding object deserialization. They implemented experimental support for a new array delegate creator, enabling alternative object instantiation methods. The user also refactored and deduplicated code related to delegate type computation and creation, improving code maintainability. Furthermore, the user fixed issues with the array delegate creator, ensuring it functions correctly within the deserialization process.
apidata-binding2-xstreaming-apistreaming
hgwood/java8-streams-and-exceptions
Feb 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
stream-apiapiexceptionsstreamwhile
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