Wes Burke
Co-Founder & Managing Director at Autotroph
Geneva, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolWes Burke is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Autotroph, where he leads a fully remote team building education and marketplace products for the Blender community, including CG Cookie and Superhive. With over a decade of hands-on experience as an environment artist on titles like Stranglehold and Tony Hawk Shred, he blends creative craft with product and business leadership to help digital creators thrive. He completed a BFA in Media and Animation and furthered his entrepreneurial skills through the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. A U.S. Coast Guard veteran, Wes brings discipline and operational rigor to scaling small teams and projects. He’s as comfortable discussing Blender toolchains and marketplace dynamics as he is wrenching on motorcycles or riffing about sci‑fi influences that shape his design sensibilities. Based in Geneva, IL, he focuses on continuous improvement and practical ways to elevate creative communities.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Media and Animation, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Media and Animation at Illinois Institute of ArtBusiness/Commerce, General, Business/Commerce, General at Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (2)
CGCookie/handbook
Dec 2017 - Aug 2020
A handbook for the CG Cookie crew
Contributions:36 commits, 35 pushes in 2 years 8 months
crewremotehandbookcookiebenefits
restrictcontentpro/restrict-content-pro
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
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