Lowell Wood
Principal Software Engineer at Focus
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLowell Wood is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling full-stack applications for startups, healthcare, and the Federal government. He combines hands-on JavaScript/TypeScript and SQL expertise with a talent for legacy-modernization and data-driven design, having led multi-team engineering programs that migrated mainframes to cloud services. As Director of Product Engineering at Cityblock Health he introduced a "configuration over code" paradigm that eliminated thousands of PRs and helped the product serve 100,000+ patients while improving clinical outcomes. His background as an Army Captain informs a people-first leadership style and proven ability to run high-tempo operations and cross-agency collaborations. An occasional open-source contributor, he implemented a widely-scoped DuckDuckGo instant answer for military ranks, demonstrating attention to detail across backend and UI concerns. Based in Washington, D.C., he excels at turning complex, regulated requirements into practical, auditable systems and sustainable engineering culture.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Political Science and Government, Political Science and Government at Wesleyan University
Github Skills (10)
instant-view10
duckduckgo10
perl10
instantsearch10
regular-expression9
data-structures8
yaml8
data-structure8
api-design6
javascript5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on Perl & JavaScript
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 22 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Lowell primarily focused on building a military rank instant answer within the DuckDuckGo search ecosystem. They began by creating the basic structure, including triggers and handle statements. Their work then evolved to include the implementation of rank data for the US Army and eventually expanded to include other branches and countries, alongside image URL updates. The user also refactored the code and added a way to scale images in order to fit the page.
javascriptduckduckgoinstant-answersperlinstant
lowellosaurus/timezone_planner
Feb 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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