Phillip Wood
Head Of Product at ABB OPTICAL GROUP
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Wood is a seasoned product leader with 14 years of hands-on experience building and scaling products across FinTech, SaaS, and commerce, now serving as Head of Product at ABB Optical Group. He has repeatedly led cross-functional teams to simplify complex workflows—driving lender automation at Lendio, boosting merchant acquisition through referral programs at PayClip, and improving retention and onboarding at GuideCX and Ancestry. Phillip combines product strategy with technical savvy, evidenced by his open-source contributions optimizing Git for Windows’ diff algorithm and memory use, reflecting a pragmatic performance-first mindset. With an MBA focused on technology management and a background in financial services, he translates regulatory and business constraints into usable, measurable product outcomes. Based in Salt Lake City, he’s known for making colleagues’ jobs easier through thoughtful automation and clear prioritization.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Westminster University
English
Github Skills (5)
c1710
memory-management10
c1110
performance-optimization10
git9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
git-for-windows/git
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:9 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Phillip contributed to the Git for Windows project by optimizing the diff algorithm and improving memory allocation. Their work involved identifying performance bottlenecks in the diff engine, specifically related to string handling in the histogram diff algorithm. These changes included refactoring the diff algorithm to avoid unnecessary memory allocation, improving string comparison, and implementing more efficient string interning. The user also introduced zealous diff3 to further optimize code diffs.
windows
phillipwood/git
Jul 2017 - Jun 2026
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository and all pull requests are ignored. Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Contributions:1006 pushes, 803 branches, 45 tags in 9 years
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