Megan Wood
Lead Engineer at Target
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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SeniorMegan Wood is a Lead Engineer based in Phoenix with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across retail, education, and SaaS domains. She combines hands-on software and DevOps expertise—API design, automation with Ansible/SaltStack/Vagrant, AWS orchestration, and Elasticsearch-backed search—to move projects from prototype to production. At Target she leads engineering efforts, and her prior roles include architecting integration and test harnesses, automating database/dev environments, and mentoring distributed teams. Megan has a track record of creating developer tooling (command-line AWS wrappers, test harnesses, Docker images) that reduce friction for engineering teams. She blends deep backend and infrastructure skills with pragmatic leadership, often translating complex legacy systems into maintainable, automated workflows. Colleagues value her ability to pair technical breadth with clear client-focused communication.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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512kreached
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mysql
top-5%
cron
top-1%
Github Skills (65)
cron10
slack-bot9
mysql9
slack7
logger7
python-logging7
normal6
formulas6
postgresql6
python-click6
decorators6
sql6
python6
macos6
salt6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
target/karmabot
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
A karmabot for Slack
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 16 commits in 2 years 2 months
botkarmabotslack-botslackkarma
devstuff-io/aws-decorators
Oct 2017 - Feb 2020
decorators for aws things
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 4 months
decoratorscloud-infrastructureaws-lambdaamazon-web-servicesamazon-cognito
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