Rizchel Wood
Principal Software Engineer at Knapsack
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRizchel Wood is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and leading front-end teams for cloud and product-focused companies. She has a track record of turning design systems and UX-led initiatives into measurable business impact—most notably rebuilding an IBM Cloud product that increased conversions by 250%—and has led design system efforts at InVision and Gatsby. Equally comfortable speaking at conferences as a Developer Advocate and shipping production code, she bridges developer communities and maker culture, with deep expertise in React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and modern front-end tooling. At Amazon and Indeed she shaped frontend architecture for large-scale consumer and enterprise experiences, mentoring engineers and influencing cross-functional strategy. Currently based in Phoenix, she balances hands-on engineering leadership with advocacy for diversity in tech and an appetite for outdoor adventure. An early hackathon winner and lifelong tinkerer, she brings both measurable outcomes and a communicator’s touch to complex product challenges.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering at Arizona State University, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Github Skills (45)
omdb-api10
redux-framework10
ibm-cloud10
redux10
datocms9
kubernetes-cluster9
docker9
react9
gatsbyjs9
twitch8
video-player8
player8
kubernetes8
browser-extension7
react-components7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/deploy-react-kubernetes
Feb 2017 - Dec 2018
Built for developers who are interested in learning how to deploy a React application on Kubernetes, this pattern uses the React and Redux framework and calls the OMDb API to look up movie information based on user input. This pattern can be built and run on both Docker and Kubernetes.
Contributions:12 PRs, 65 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 9 months
dockerkubernetesomdb-apireactredux-framework
rizchelwood/rizchelwood.github.io
Nov 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years 10 months
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