Wes Eklund
Software Development Engineer - Customer Engineering at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolWes Eklund is a software development engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native systems, currently accelerating enterprise cloud adoption on AWS Professional Services Customer Engineering. He blends full‑stack engineering—custom infrastructure, backend services, and React front-ends—with practical machine learning and data-driven problem solving. Wes has led architecture overhauls (notably migrating EEG visualization to a lightweight React SPA with a custom HTML5 Canvas renderer) and mentored teams to ship scalable, reliable products. Outside AWS he contributes writing on software teams and ML, teaches Python and bootcamp students, and organizes local tech meetups, showing a strong commitment to developer community growth. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky and multiple Udacity nanodegrees in deep learning, algorithms, and AI for trading. A curious tinkerer, he enjoys turning complex domain data into usable, performant user experiences.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at University of KentuckyNanodegree, Data Structures and Algorithms, Nanodegree, Data Structures and Algorithms at UdacityUniversity of Southern IndianaApollo High School
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Github Skills (181)
command-line-interface10
python-client10
interactive-brokers10
laravel9
rest9
websocket-client9
change-detection9
python9
mach9
rest-client9
jupyterhub9
aws9
workbench9
graph9
dates8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
weklund/Military-Rank-Web-Font-Icons
Apr 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
weklund/ibind
Feb 2025 - Aug 2025
IBind is a REST and WebSocket client library for Interactive Brokers Client Portal Web API.
Contributions:2 PRs, 59 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
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