Wesley Kerfoot
Senior Platform Engineer
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolWesley Kerfoot is a Senior Platform Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable infrastructure and full-stack systems across healthcare, finance, and crypto. He has delivered production ML pipelines at scale using Ray and Kubernetes, and automated cloud infrastructure and CI with Terraform, Packer, Ansible and GitHub Actions. A polyglot who explores functional and systems programming (including Haskell), he even packaged a Python tool to automate Facebook data scrubbing with two-factor authentication handling. His work on HIPAA/HITRUST-compliant deployments and custody systems reflects a strong focus on security, testing and auditability. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Wesley pairs technical breadth with a philosophy background and a passion for mentoring colleagues to improve team craft.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelors, Philosophy, Honours Bachelors, Philosophy at McMaster University
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Github Skills (22)
selenium10
selenium310
python10
seleniumide10
automation10
automations10
scrape9
webscraping9
scraper9
http-request9
web-scraping9
web-scraper9
screen-scraping9
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
weskerfoot/DeleteFB
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
Automate Scrubbing your Facebook Presence
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 229 commits, 99 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Wesley primarily worked on refactoring and packaging the Facebook post deletion script into a proper Python package. They added features to handle two-factor authentication, a critical security aspect. Furthermore, the user implemented core functionality, including unliking pages, enhancing the script's automation capabilities. These modifications indicate a focus on improving the overall functionality and user experience of automating Facebook presence scrubbing.
automationfacebook
weskerfoot/Nimwin
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
A Very Simple X11 Window Manager
Contributions:76 commits, 2 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 9 months
x11linuxwindowxcbwindow-manager
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