Wes Byrne
Director Of Engineering at Wes Byrne
Culver City, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolWes Byrne is a Director of Engineering based in Culver City with 11 years of experience building and shipping macOS, iOS, and web products. He blends hands-on full-stack development—demonstrated by meaningful contributions to the SketchAPI open-source project—with leadership at The Noun Project where he moved from senior engineer to director. Experienced in eCommerce, mobile apps, and integrations (Parse, Facebook, Google Shopping), he focuses on shipping high-quality, user-facing products and developer-friendly tooling. A former competitive sailing coach, he brings team coaching and program-building instincts to engineering management. His background in psychology and study abroad in Spain add a user-centered and cross-cultural perspective to product and team decisions.
11 years of coding experience
Spanish Society, Spanish Society at University of AlicanteBachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology at Eckerd College
Stackoverflow
1,569reputation
200kreached
17answers
7questions
xcode
top-5%
iphone
top-5%
ios
top-5%
objective-c
top-5%
Github Skills (20)
json10
javascript10
sketch10
ios9
objective-c9
apidoc9
object-oriented-programming9
iphone9
api9
xcode9
uid8
front-end-development8
ui-design8
cocoa-touch6
coredata6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sketch-hq/SketchAPI
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
The JavaScript plugin library embedded in Sketch
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 48 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Wes focused on improving the `sketchapi` library by refactoring code to use utility functions from the `skpm` package. They updated the codebase to correctly convert NSObjects to JavaScript counterparts, ensuring compatibility. The user also added functionality to archive and unarchive objects to/from JSON, expanding the library's capabilities for object serialization. Further improvements included fixing export formatting and updating the import process.
javascriptsketchsketch-plugin
WCByrne/SwiftMark
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:79 commits, 4 PRs, 69 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.