Wes Pals
VP Product Development at HarrisData
Sussex, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWes Pals is a seasoned software leader and VP of Product Development at HarrisData, bringing 10+ years of hands-on PHP and web development to enterprise payroll and ERP systems. He is a full-stack technologist with deep PHP expertise (PHP7/8), RESTful APIs, Symfony components, Doctrine ORM, Zend, and proficiency in Python, Django, Ruby, and modern JavaScript. He leads product delivery from planning to deployment, introducing API versioning, Composer-based package management, and comprehensive unit testing to ensure reliable, scalable software. His past projects include building a multi-API travel search engine, a large MySQL airline ticket inventory (8 million records), CMS-enabled sites for SEO, and a secure intranet with SSO, demonstrating breadth and impact. With a BA in Journalism and Advertising from UW-Milwaukee, he combines business acumen and strong communication with technical depth, and is based in Sussex, Wisconsin.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Journalism and Advertising, Bachelor's Degree, Journalism and Advertising at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Github Skills (2)
zend-server3
cookbook1
Github contributions (5)
wespals/AppsInHD-zend-server
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
wespals/phinx-db2-adapter
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 9 pushes, 6 tags in 1 day
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