Trevor Wood
Vice President at PDT Partners
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTrevor Wood is a VP and seasoned infrastructure leader with 11+ years building and operating large-scale, cloud-native and hybrid platforms across finance and healthcare. He specializes in multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms, immutable image pipelines (Spinnaker, Packer), observability (Prometheus/Thanos, ELK), and secure CI/CD for highly available, multi-region deployments. Trevor has led platform engineering at firms like Millennium, Cerner, Goldman Sachs and Flourish, and now drives infrastructure strategy at PDT Partners. A hands-on DevOps contributor, he improved build efficiency and Helm handling for the open-source kapitan project, reflecting a penchant for pragmatic automation. His background in ACS-certified chemistry research gives him a disciplined, data-driven approach to problem solving and a taste for digging into systems from first principles. Colleagues know him as an organizationally focused technologist who balances operational rigor with a genuine joy for taming distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Montgomery County Community CollegeBachelor's Degree Chemistry with a concentration in Advanced Chemistry (ACS certified degree) and Biochemistry, Bachelor's Degree Chemistry with a concentration in Advanced Chemistry (ACS certified degree) and Biochemistry at Monmouth UniversityHigh School, High School at Wissahickon High School
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
docker10
helm10
devops10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
devtools10
python9
yaml8
terraformer6
terraform6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kapicorp/kapitan
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Generic templated configuration management for Kubernetes, Terraform and other things
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 20 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Trevor contributed significantly to the project's infrastructure and build processes. They updated Dockerfiles to utilize multi-stage builds for improved efficiency and maintained the build scripts. Moreover, they were involved in the configuration and testing of the Helm input type, ensuring correct behavior when dealing with references. Their work also included modifying files related to dependency management, making them responsible for the overall system's build and operational aspects.
pythonaws-kmsgcp-kmsyamljinja2
taharah/kiam
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Integrate AWS IAM with Kubernetes
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
kubernetesiamaws-iamterraformaws
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