Kristy Wienken
Lead, Development at SoftLayer, an IBM Company
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristy Wienken is a Lead of Development based in Dallas with nine years of hands-on experience building and maintaining company websites, intranets, and sales applications such as shopping carts and configuration tools. She combines strong full-stack skills—PHP, .NET/C#, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Linux—and content management expertise with platform work on Force.com (Apex/Visualforce) and Salesforce integrations. At SoftLayer (now IBM), she led development efforts and contributed to open-source tooling, adding backend features and tests to the widely used softlayer-python library for managing hardware and virtual guests. Known for being highly organized and detail-oriented, she excels at integrating internal systems with sales workflows and shipping reliable, tested features. Her background spans startups to enterprise environments, bringing both UI/UX sensibility from earlier web/graphic design roles and solid backend engineering discipline.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Webmaster Technology, AAS, Webmaster Technology at Texas State Technical CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bellville High School
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
python10
apidoc9
api9
testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
softlayer/softlayer-python
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
A set of Python libraries that assist in calling the SoftLayer API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kristy primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the SoftLayer Python library. Their work focused on adding a method to retrieve packages by key, which was then integrated into the hardware and virtual guest management modules. They also wrote unit tests to ensure the reliability and correctness of the new package retrieval feature. Additionally, the user made updates related to the upgrade process for virtual guests, modifying the codebase to use the newly implemented package retrieval method.
apicallingpythonsoftlayerassist
kwienken/softlayer-python
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 13 branches, 2 comments in 10 months
apicallingpythonsoftlayerassist
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