Spencer Wood
Principal Software Engineer at Oracle
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Wood is a Principal Software Engineer at Oracle with 11 years of experience building high-throughput streaming and analytics platforms using Scala, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka and related open-source tooling. He leads architecture and rewrites of critical stacks—designing low-latency collection services, identity-resolution graph systems, and ETL/data-action pipelines—while also maintaining Wookiee, an open-source microservices framework adopted in production. Known internally as a "smoke-jumper," he routinely parachutes into teams to troubleshoot the hardest problems and drive projects to completion, and he frequently teaches Scala and mentors QA engineers new to coding. Grounded in discrete math and algorithms from the University of Washington, Spencer combines rigorous algorithmic thinking with pragmatic system design to squeeze extreme throughput and millisecond latency from distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Applied Computational and Mathematical Sciences: Discrete Math and Algorithms, BS Applied Computational and Mathematical Sciences: Discrete Math and Algorithms at University of Washington
English
Github Skills (71)
burp10
reporter10
akka10
scala10
endpoints10
spray10
adobe-experience-manager10
aem10
reactive9
high-performance9
streaming9
akka-http9
sling9
concurrent9
java9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
oracle/wookiee-metrics
Nov 2015 - Feb 2023
Wookiee Component - Metrics
Contributions:16 releases, 1 review, 43 commits in 7 years 4 months
adobe-experience-managerreporterwookieeslingaem
oracle/wookiee-cache
Aug 2015 - Jun 2020
Wookiee Component - Cache
Contributions:13 releases, 1 review, 19 commits in 4 years 10 months
cachewookieewookiee-cache
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