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V.I. Wood

Principal Technology Leader specializing in FinTech and DoD DevSecOps modernization

Segue TechnologiesUCLA27 Years ExperiencePrincipal LevelWorks On-Site

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Engineering leader with a strong automation-first philosophy ("special treatment doesn't scale"), experienced in building self-service tooling and communicating clearly with executives via BLUF-style updates. Has delivered end-to-end business-driven solutions—from sourcing alternative vendor data to installing infrastructure and writing drivers/analytics—and led pragmatic architecture changes in R/Rserve that significantly improved performance while driving cloud costs toward near-zero.

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Key Strengths

  • Delivers business-aligned technology roadmaps with executive approval and adaptability to changing goals
  • Proven end-to-end execution: research/vendor selection, budget approval, infrastructure setup, and custom driver/analytics development
  • Automation-first scaling mindset (self-service, scripts that generate scripts) learned in a scaling environment (InvestCloud)
  • Strong executive/stakeholder communication focused on outcomes (BLUF; benefits over features)
  • Architecture optimization that improved performance and reduced cloud costs (on-demand Rserve; parallelized computation; faster rendering via JPG rasterization)

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Experience

Senior Software Engineer / Lead TechnologistSegue Technologies · Apr 2023 – Present
Lead Technologist, DevSecOps ModernizationFEDITC, LLC · Feb 2021 – Mar 2023
Senior Technologist (Quantitative Systems)T2AM, LLC · Nov 2014 – Jul 2019
Senior Developer / Release ArchitectInvestCloud, Inc. · Nov 2012 – Feb 2013
Quantitative Developer and TechnologistCoast Asset Management · Jun 1992 – Feb 2011

Education

UCLAbachelor, Economics (Program in Computing)

Languages

English

Certifications

CFA Charterholder

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V.I. WoodPrincipal Technology Leader specializing in FinTech and DoD DevSecOps modernization