Amos Wood
Principal Software Engineer at Asurion
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolAmos Wood is a Principal Software Engineer and seasoned technical leader with 11+ years driving data integrations, analytics, and API platforms across retail and consumer-services domains. He currently pioneers Apache Kafka adoption and real-time eventing at Asurion, building encryption libraries, custom Kafka Connect transforms, and stream processing to operationalize a shared event platform. Previously he led multiple cross-functional engineering teams at LifeWay, introducing Kanban, coach-led management, and big-data initiatives (Hadoop, Elasticsearch, MongoDB) that reduced TCO and boosted delivery predictability. Known as a hands-on coach, Amos pairs deep SQL and integration expertise with cloud and NoSQL experience to turn messy data problems into reliable, scalable systems. A practical innovator, he has a track record of choosing the right tool for high-throughput needs and mentoring engineers to apply event-driven patterns effectively.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Union University
English
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Github Skills (19)
monitoring7
puppet7
python7
datadog7
apache-kafka6
devops6
dd5
agent5
newrelic5
neo4j-server4
nodejs4
telemetry3
filebeat3
postman2
tomcat2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
amoswood/puppet-neo4j
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
neo4j-serverpuppetpuppet-moduleconfigureneo4j
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