# Alex Wood

> Senior Software Engineer at Hinge Health

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexwood

I’m a mission-focused full stack developer with backend expertise. In my 8+ years of professional experience, I have worked at early stage startups, companies that have been acquired and Fortune 500 companies. I’m eager to solve challenging problems and hope to join an organization making a positive social impact.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Hinge Health
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Hinge Health is pioneering the world’s most patient-centered Digital Clinic for back & joint pain. Hinge Health’s Digital Clinic is the #1 musculoskeletal (MSK) solution for employers and health plans. MSK conditions are the #1 medical spend for US employers. Hinge Health is finally making it easier to bring expert-recommended care to millions of patients by being the first company to combine wearable-sensor guided exercise therapy with 1-on-1 health coaching and patient education. Only Hinge Health has clinically validated outcomes across 4 peer-reviewed studies showing reductions in: chronic pain, opioid use, anxiety, depression, absenteeism, and costly surgeries.

4 in 5 employers with a digital MSK solution partner with Hinge Health and we are poised to triple our customer base again in 2020. Hinge Health has raised $126M to date and has 300+ employees across our San Francisco, Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, and remote offices.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Nurx
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed various internal tools to support the NURX pharmacy and customer care teams with Ember.js and Node.js
• Played a major role in selecting and integrating a task queue library for handling background work and scheduled tasks
• Built a dashboard for displaying internal pharmacy metrics that helped our pharmacy team monitor order processing statuses
• Designed and implemented a pharmacy drug inventory management system
• Debugged various on-call issues ranging from API slowness to database table locks with Splunk and NewRelic

### Lead Developer and CTO @ Tuki
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Built various features for a web application aimed at helping dietitians improve patient outcomes and scale their practices
• Learned ES6, React and Firebase while serving as the CTO and lead developer for an early-stage startup
• Managed and mentored junior developers
• Introduced process for improving code quality including code reviews, testing and style guidelines
• Began transitioning the application from a serverless backend (Firebase) to a Rails API while porting document-oriented collections into a relational data model

### Senior Software Engineer @ FutureAdvisor
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Worked on various backend services that support FutureAdvisor's direct-to-consumer and B2B2C automated investment management platform using Ruby on Rails
• Served as the technical lead on an email archive monitoring system with a 24 hour SLA
• Performed various technical integrations with partners and third party vendors, including financial institutions, marketing automation platforms and email service providers
• Owned FutureAdvisor’s email communication system and served as the email subject matter expert
• Worked with the DevOps team to improve FutureAdvisor’s backend infrastructure (e.g., improved message queue management, application performance monitoring)
• Built systems for auto-populating enrollment forms and managing eSignatures

### Senior Software Engineer @ ShopSavvy Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco
• Designed, developed and maintained the software behind the services that power ShopSavvy’s
mobile and web applications using ASP.NET MVC
• Developed various backend systems for communicating and engaging with our user base
• Built adapters and scrapers for serializing external product information into both relational and non-relational storage systems
• Worked with technical lead to design ShopSavvy’s social communications infrastructure

### Software Engineer @ Western Digital
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Irvine, CA
• Primary developer of a multi-threaded data integrity and firmware feature interaction test suite
• Extensive experience profiling Java applications and optimizing both memory and runtime efficiency
• Developed a user interface for rendering real-time test results with the JFreeChart data visualization library
• Debugged various SAS firmware and driver level issues
• Utilized aspects of the agile software development process for all development efforts
• Designed and implemented various test applications for exercising hard drive firmware
• Recorded and interpreted bus analyzer traces in order to determine the culprit of protocol level issues

### Web Developer @ TopDish
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
• Designed a large scale autonomous data import service which ingested and processed XML data
• Employed the Google Maps API to represent points of interest
• Created a web page for displaying company updates and team information via the Facebook
Graph API
• Developed and exposed various API endpoints for managing dish and restaurant information

### Web Developer Intern @ Apace Systems
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Orange, CA
• Supported development of a rich internet application for media asset management and collaborative video editing
• Worked extensively with the ExtJS library to design a comprehensive network configuration tool
• Performed UNIX system administration tasks and server setup
• Provided technical support and server troubleshooting

### Developer Intern @ SCAQMD
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Diamond Bar, CA
• Employed Visual Basic and ADO to design an application for air quality data management
• Assisted in the development of a data ingestion, visualization and analysis tool for use with generated documents and spreadsheets

### Developer Intern @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Pasadena, CA
• Designed an application for presenting the chemical and thermal composition of Jupiter’s Little
Red Spot with the IDL data visualization language
• Maintained legacy code for consolidating and analyzing planetary data
• Presented my progress and findings to various internal groups on a weekly basis


## Education
### B.S. in Computer Science
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexlwood

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Last updated: 2026-03-29