Rob Wood
Principal Architect, Microsoft Businesses Applications EMEA
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRob Wood is a Principal Architect with 17 years of hands-on software and delivery experience, currently leading Microsoft Business Applications across EMEA. He combines a developer-first background in .NET, Azure, SharePoint and Dynamics 365/Power Platform with proven experience managing delivery teams up to 40 people and running large migration and app-factory programmes. Pragmatic and commercially astute, he balances business value with technical excellence, setting standards and automation to accelerate delivery at scale. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has worked on smtp4dev—improving UI-driven message handling and relaying—illustrating a practical understanding of protocols as well as enterprise integrations. Based in England, he routinely operates at the intersection of architecture, governance and hands-on implementation to turn complex requirements into reliable, testable solutions.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at The University of Salford
Github Skills (13)
e-mail10
net10
mailer10
dotnet10
emailjs10
uid8
front-end-development8
ui-design8
web-development6
database5
apidoc5
api5
databases5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rnwood/smtp4dev
Jun 2009 - Jan 2023
smtp4dev - the fake smtp email server for development and testing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1290 releases, 51 reviews, 443 commits in 13 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Rob's primary contributions focused on the development of the SMTP4DEV fake SMTP email server for development and testing. Their work included initial setup and import of the codebase, including the creation of the user interface elements. Furthermore, they implemented features such as updating to newer versions, adding source code viewing, handling email headers, and enabling message relaying with a configuration that is settable from the UI. The development efforts show an understanding of email protocols and message handling.
email-serversmtpsmtp4devtestingsmtp-server
rnwood/smtpserver
Nov 2017 - Oct 2022
A SMTP server component for .NET Framework and .NET Core.
Contributions:87 releases, 1 review, 70 commits in 5 years
dotnetsmtp-server
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