Engineer. Reader.
Builder.

I'm a software engineer at Tesla in Austin. I read a lot — philosophy mostly, Stoics in particular. I follow baseball with an investment that probably isn't warranted. I cook. I build side projects. I'm the kind of person who goes unreasonably deep on things, and the things change often. This site is a window into what's currently in rotation.

Software @ TeslaGeorgia Tech CSAustin, TX
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Runs this mo.
31.1
Miles this mo.
13:10/mi
Avg pace
6h 49m
Time on feet
Tready
4.0 mi12:21/mi49:38177 bpm
Aug 27
Still so hot
3.7 mi13:18/mi49:19181 bpm
Aug 25
Please let August end
3.3 mi14:31/mi47:13167 bpm
Aug 18
Slow ass long run
5.8 mi13:48/mi1:19:45175 bpm
Aug 15
400m Repeats
3.3 mi13:04/mi42:39180 bpm
Aug 12
Indoor tready
3.1 mi12:27/mi38:46176 bpm
Aug 11
Boston run
3.0 mi12:21/mi37:15
Aug 6
Slow long run
4.9 mi13:07/mi1:04:46175 bpm
Aug 1
Evening Run
3.7 mi12:08/mi44:50185 bpm
Jul 28
Tempo 1200s
3.3 mi13:23/mi43:46170 bpm
Jul 25
Read in 2026
Want to Read
  • Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)Pierce Brown
  • Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace
  • Les MisérablesVictor Hugo
  • Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management TrackWill Larson
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidDouglas R. Hofstadter
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)Douglas Adams
  • Martin EdenJack London
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRueV.E. Schwab
  • Into the WildJon Krakauer
Also watched in 2026
Experience
Mar 2025
— Present

Austin, TX
Tesla Current
Software Engineer — Factory Software

Building the internal tools that help Tesla maintain equipment across six global factories — full-stack, at scale. I work across Go microservices, MySQL, Kubernetes, and Kafka day-to-day, with a focus on reliability and performance at millions of records. Increasingly, I lean on AI to accelerate how I build.

GoMySQLKubernetesDockerKafkaGrafanaSplunk
May 2024
— Aug 2024

Fremont, CA
Tesla
Software Engineer Intern

My first exposure to Tesla's scale — built features for the same factory tool I now own full-time, plus an API for forms and workflows used by 20,000+ people across the company.

GoMySQLAngularKafkaGrafana
May 2022
— Aug 2022

Atlanta, GA
FlightBridge
Software Engineer Intern

Built booking and hotel tools for private aviation — a maps-based hotel visualization and a C# recommendation engine that improved search relevance for 1,000+ customers.

ASP.NETC#SQLGoogle Maps API
May 2021
— Aug 2021

Alpharetta, GA
Griffin Solutions Group
Software Engineer Intern

First real SWE internship — React frontend and Node.js APIs. Where I fell in love with full-stack.

ReactNode.jsPostgreSQL
Education
Aug 2021
— Dec 2024

Atlanta, GA
Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. Computer Science
Research Assistant — Data-Driven Product Design for Non-Profits
4.00 / 4.00 GPA
Projects
ianwood.dev
Next.js · TypeScript · Vercel
This portfolio — automated deployment pipeline via Claude Code and GitHub PRs. Changes ship from a phone without touching a desktop.
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More projects in progress
// currently building
A handful of side builds I'm actively shipping — experiments, weekend projects, and things still too rough to link. More soon.
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Certifications
AZ
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
AZ-900 · May 2025
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Skills
Languages
  • Go
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • C#
  • Java
  • SQL
Web
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Node.js
  • ASP.NET
  • Tailwind
  • HTML/CSS
Infrastructure
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • Jenkins
  • Grafana
  • Splunk
Data & Cloud
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • ClickHouse
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Git