Michael Hood
Chief Technology Officer at Wunderkind
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hood is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in California with 13 years of engineering experience building high-performance distributed systems. He combines hands-on systems architecture with customer-facing skills, translating deep technical tradeoffs into business-aligned decisions. His domain expertise spans geospatial and time-series ingestion, mobile/IoT sensors, RTB advertising, fraud detection, observability and self-healing infrastructure, and large-scale experimentation for marketing and retail. Throughout roles from Life360 to Optimizely, NS1 and Wunderkind he has driven performance-first practices—profiling, tracing, and instrumenting—to scale systems to billions of requests and multiple Gbps metrics intake. He’s comfortable negotiating vendor contracts and shaping edge/CDN architectures while also patching core open-source networking components when required. Known for blending pragmatic engineering with strategic vision, he often surfaces non-obvious fixes by baking observability into architecture early.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Internet
English
Stackoverflow
812reputation
61kreached
21answers
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Github Skills (128)
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ruby10
nsq10
ublock-origin10
thunderbird10
javascript10
keyboard-shortcuts10
linux10
chromium10
firefox10
google-search10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
michaelhood/homebrew-core
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
macosformulaepackage-managermissing
michaelhood/nuid
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
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