Kyle Wood
Principal Software Engineer at Backblaze
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Wood is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable data systems and developer tools, currently leading data warehouse development at Backblaze. He holds an MS in Computer Science and brings deep Java and Kotlin expertise to designing and maintaining ETL pipelines and scalable backend services. Kyle pairs hands-on engineering with integration work—his open-source contributions include meaningful fixes and parser reworks for Minecraft tooling and IntelliJ modding support, showing attention to correctness and developer experience. Based in Oklahoma City, he has progressed from individual contributor to technical lead roles, mentoring teams while shaping architecture and delivery. Off the clock he’s a cat lover and Taylor Swift fan, a hint of the personality behind his disciplined, detail-oriented approach.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSCS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSCS) Computer Science at Oklahoma Christian University
Github Skills (21)
algorithm10
minecraft10
minecraft-forge10
parser10
user-interface10
forge10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
java10
javas10
minecraft-fabric10
parsing10
parse10
build-automation10
intellij-plugin10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
minecraft-dev/MinecraftDev
Sep 2015 - Dec 2022
Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA that gives special support for Minecraft modding projects.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Integration Engineer
Back-end Developer & Integration EngineerContributions:35 reviews, 1314 commits, 147 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on implementing Forge mod support for the Minecraft Development IntelliJ IDEA plugin. Their contributions involved creating templates and functionalities to handle Forge projects, along with code for handling the .mcmod.info and other support files. The user also added features to handle various project generation and build setup operations, which allowed for the automatic deployment of forge based mods for the user to create.
bungeecordgradlemcpspigotintellij-plugin
KyoriPowered/adventure
May 2021 - May 2021
A user-interface library, formerly known as text, for Minecraft: Java Edition
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on improving the user interface library for Minecraft: Java Edition. Their work included reworking the template parsing logic within the MiniMessageParser, shifting from parsing template contents to directly inserting them as raw text, leading to a more predictable and secure approach. Additionally, the user addressed escaping issues, fixed several test cases, implemented the `<reset>` tag, and corrected formatting and checkstyle issues. These commits suggest a focus on refining the core functionality and improving the reliability of the library.
user-interfaceminecraftspigotminecraft-javaminecraft-nbt
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