Curtis Wilde

Staff Software Engineer @ Ancestry

Curtis Wilde is a skilled software engineer with a wealth of experience in Big Data technologies like Storm, Lucene, Solr, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Zookeeper, and MongoDB.

He is well-versed in developing web applications using Java, Groovy, Python, as well as front-end technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, and JQuery.

With a personal interest in data analytics and management applications, Curtis is currently focused on creating robust solutions on Hadoop using JCascalog/Cascading.

His professional background includes working on agile development teams where he practices Test-Driven Development (TDD) using tools like Spock, JUnit, and TestNG.

Curtis holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Japanese Language and Literature, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Asian Studies/Civilization, all from the University of Utah.

He has held positions such as Staff Software Engineer at Ancestry.com, Software Engineer at qpquo LLC, Big Data Engineer at O.C. Tanner, Software Engineer at Software Technology Group, and Quality Assurance Engineer at Corp. Presiding Bishop, LDS Church.