John Wood
Vice President, Digital Fleet Engineering at Command Alkon
New Lenox, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Wood is a seasoned engineering leader with 14+ years building scalable web, mobile, and distributed systems, now serving as Vice President of Digital Fleet Engineering. He excels at turning struggling products into reliable, fault-tolerant platforms—having refactored a telematics system for horizontal scalability, observability, and uptime while leading small, high-impact teams. Equally comfortable sketching strategy with stakeholders and rolling up his sleeves to implement solutions, he blends strong communication with hands-on technical execution. His background spans startups and enterprise environments (from Motorola and Orbitz to growing SaaS firms), giving him a practical grasp of performance, monitoring, and operational excellence. Based in New Lenox, IL, he’s known for mentoring engineers, streamlining development processes, and prioritizing customer-focused outcomes that measurably improve productivity and cost.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors in Computer Science Computer Science Business, Bachelors in Computer Science Computer Science Business at Northern Illinois University
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Github Skills (12)
databases8
database8
schema8
sql7
rails7
ruby6
activerecord5
foreign-keys4
plugin2
s3cmd1
buildpack1
heroku1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jwood/tenacity
Apr 2012 - Apr 2015
A database client independent way of managing relationships between models backed by different databases.
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push in 3 years
databasedatabases
jwood/addressbook
Mar 2012 - Jan 2017
An address book web application (Rails) that stores phone numbers, addresses, and prints mailing labels
Contributions:33 commits, 1 push in 4 years 11 months
rails
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