Jesse Wood
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJesse Wood is a software engineer and PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence based in Wellington, New Zealand, with a decade of experience building data-driven systems and teaching machine learning and software engineering at Victoria University. He blends academic rigor—having completed a First Class BE Honours—with practical impact, contracting at NIWA to ingest and publish ocean and atmospheric research via the New Zealand Ocean Data Network. As a tutor he translates complex concepts into coursework across ML, databases, mobile development and engineering project management, while his research assistantships and scholarship work reflect an active research orientation. Motivated by a mission to leave the world better than he found it, Jesse uses software as a medium to scale scientific insight into public-facing tools and datasets.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Victoria University of Wellington
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Github Skills (37)
githubactions10
emmet10
open-weather-api10
google-scholar8
nodejs8
calculator8
javascript7
css7
windows7
linux7
html7
macos6
arbitrary-precision6
vim6
firebase-console6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
woodRock/improved-barnacle
May 2020 - Jun 2025
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches, 6 issues in 5 years 2 months
woodRock/woodrock.github.io
Apr 2020 - Feb 2026
Portfolio
Contributions:43 PRs, 436 pushes, 44 branches in 5 years 11 months
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