Stephen Wood
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Wood is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building large-scale data and cloud systems, currently focused on Big Data Platform infrastructure at Netflix in San Francisco. His background spans systems engineering, DevOps, and cloud security from roles at Pacific Software Publishing, Moz, and Elastica (acquired by Symantec), giving him deep operational insight into high-traffic APIs, crawling/indexing, and secure cloud operations. At Netflix he contributes to analytics infrastructure and has extended open-source tooling—such as implementing a Python client for Netflix/genie—to improve programmatic interaction with distributed job orchestration. He combines hands-on back-end development and automation with a pragmatic approach to reliability and testing, evidenced by adding robust client tests and configuration handling. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex distributed problems into maintainable services that scale. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and brings both production-hardened experience and a preference for practical, well-tested solutions.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Bachelor's at University of Washington
Github Skills (15)
api-rest10
rest-api10
orchestration10
orchestra10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
configuration-management9
distributed-systems8
microservices-application7
microservices7
java5
javas5
big-data4
spring-boot4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/genie
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
Distributed Big Data Orchestration Service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 18 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Stephen implemented a Python client library for the Genie service. This included creating methods for interacting with the Genie API, handling HTTP requests, and managing configurations. They also added tests to ensure the client's functionality and updated the library to utilize a specific namespace. The user's contributions focused on enhancing the programmatic interaction with the Genie platform.
microservicebigdataorchestrationconfiguration-managementnetflixoss
stephen-mw/gdoc_ssh_manager
May 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
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