Summary
Woody Lucas is a software engineer based in New York with eight years of experience building full-stack web applications and data visualizations, currently contributing at Coinbase. He blends a background in Economics and hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, Node.js/Express, React, and Solidity to deliver pragmatic, maintainable systems. At WLDevelopment he designed PostgreSQL schemas and D3.js visualizations for datasets of 20,000+ athletes and coached engineering teams in React Native, reflecting both technical depth and a collaborative teaching mindset. Known for clear communication and a perpetual-student approach, he favors elegant, performance-minded solutions such as reusable DB truncation routines to speed lookups. Woody thrives on challenging projects that push product usability and long-term value while keeping a beginner’s curiosity rooted in early web tinkering.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Economics, Sports Management - Minor, Economics, Sports Management - Minor at St. John's University
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