Stu Wood
Human Centered Web & Solutions Engineer
Whether building web applications, designing technical solutions, or presenting to non-technical audiences - empathy is at the heart of my work.
I've primarily worked in life-sciences, healthcare, sustainability, and SaaS analytics. But more than any specific industry, I’m driven by the spirit of thoughtful design, servant leadership, and human connection in software development. I bring that mindset to everything I do, regardless of the space.
I excel in cross-functional environments where communication, continuous learning, taking initiative, and transparency are valued. I’m passionate about using data to drive decisions and create better user experiences.
Some of favorite free time activites are traveling, surfing, and bopping around San Diego.
Feel free to contact me regarding opportunities, career advice, or just to connect.
Development Projects
AI Assisted Projects are denoted with an AI icon, everything else was hand-coded
ES6 Shopping Cart
This project was an exercise in building a SPA shopping and cart experience purely in Vanilla ES6 without any state management libraries.
Illumina TSO 500 Selector Angular App
Planned, design, developed, and launched product selection app in collaboration with business & design stakeholders to drive customer growth
Tracking Page Product Demo
Conceptualized a tracking page for last-mile delivery service that showcases product and design thinking
This Portfolio | React
Written in React. Built with Gatsby, deployed with Netlify. Cursor AI assisted in 2026
React Incident Dashboard
Written in React, features responsive design. Dashboard provides users way to filter data in a table by clicking UI cards
React Covid-19 Hackathon Project
Written in React + Gatsby, Netflify, Firebase. Proof of concept attempt
React Responsive Dashboard
An exercise in creating responsive layouts in React with scalable component styling. Utilizes Flexbox & Chart.js
Elle Front-end Component Library
Written in vanilla JS, HTML, and SCSS this library utilizes Hugo Giraudel's 7-1 Sass architecture. I contributed the buttons, cards, scrollspy, and long search editor.
Drag & Drop Puzzle
HTML5 jigsaw puzzle that utilizes the HTML Drag and Drop API. Puzzle includes timer, multiple difficulty levels, and completion animation
JavaScript Notes
A collection of notes I compiled while learning JS. Includes topics like closures, callbacks, IIFEs, scope etc.
UI Component - Query Editor
Component allows user to expand and edit search query once it grows beyond the bounds of its input box
UI Component - Minimalist Carousel
Component utilizes CSS transitions to smoothly hide an image and expose another
Free Music Archive Albums
Since coding this the Free Music Archive revoked API access to its service so the demo is broken. Project was created to fetch album data and display albums to the page using indexedDB for storage, Handlebars.js for templating, and XMLHttpRequest API for AJAX
Vanilla JavaScript Form w/Validation
Without modifying the HTML, manipulate a form to include validation and mock a JSON request. No 3rd party libraries or bleeding edge features allowed. Focus is on JS not on CSS. I used the revealing module pattern to create a public interface for the app