Wes Baker
Engineering Manager, Collections, Bundles & Combined Listings at Shopify
Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolWes Baker is an engineering manager with 17 years of experience who currently leads Collections, Bundles & Combined Listings at Shopify, driving technical modernization and merchant-facing product delivery. He combines hands-on backend roots (notably contributions to the ExpressionEngine CMS) with a track record of building and scaling teams, launching enterprise features, and coordinating complex cross-org initiatives that delivered millions in GMV. Known for pragmatic process improvements—introducing RFCs, reducing meeting load, instituting testing culture, and shipping automation—he balances delivery velocity with sustainable engineering practices. Wes also pairs strategic roadmapping (multi-quarter plans for React/Router upgrades and AI tooling) with day-to-day operational rigor like runbooks and on-call rotations. Based in Fredericksburg, VA, he brings a maker’s curiosity (board games, puzzles) and a penchant for fixing thorny developer-ops problems that quietly accelerate team effectiveness.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Business - Information Technology, B.S. Business - Information Technology at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (18)
cms10
animation10
php10
webkit9
template-engine9
templater9
css9
iphone9
template-tags9
mysql8
iframe6
expressionengine6
capistrano6
jquery6
flicker6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ExpressionEngine/ExpressionEngine
Jan 2011 - May 2016
ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich, free open-source content management platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of individuals and organizations around the world to easily manage their web site.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3322 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Wes made several contributions related to implementing and modifying features within the ExpressionEngine CMS, specifically involving user authentication, and content and template related parameters. The user was primarily involved in the code base working with PHP files, and making modifications to improve the functionality of the CMS. The user's work focused on a variety of features within the forum section of the CMS.
expressionengineeecmscmsphpcontent-management-system
wesbaker/wesbaker.com
Sep 2019 - May 2026
Contributions:1219 reviews, 118 PRs, 195 pushes in 6 years 8 months
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