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
Spanish
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Github Skills (193)
python-client10
laravel10
interactive-brokers10
mach9
rest-client9
php9
graph9
dates8
javascript8
python8
terraform8
datetime8
error-reporting8
react8
bugsnag8
Programming languages (16)
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/learn-c-sharp-with-tests
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
Learn C# with test-driven development
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 3 months
dotnettest-driventestingcsharptest-driven-development
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