Wes Felter
Software Architect
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWes Felter is a software architect and freelance cloud infrastructure specialist in Austin with 14 years of experience building datacenter and cloud systems informed by a 15-year research background in servers and networking. He has recently focused on networking technologies—SDN, network automation, virtualization, and container networking—and led design of WAN, IPAM, DNS, NTP, GSLB, compute/GPU/storage pods and Ansible-driven network automation for private cloud deployments. At IBM he bridged research and practical engineering, and his open-source work includes front-end enhancements to the widely used Floodlight OpenFlow controller, improving topology visualization and UX to match evolving REST APIs. Comfortable operating at the intersection of research and production, he’s known for taking projects beyond existing infrastructure constraints to deliver pragmatic, state-of-the-art solutions.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (9)
topology10
javascript10
user-interface10
d3js10
backbone10
backbonejs10
html9
css9
rest-api8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
floodlight/floodlight
Apr 2012 - Nov 2012
Floodlight SDN OpenFlow Controller
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Wes focused on developing the user interface for the Floodlight SDN OpenFlow Controller. Their contributions primarily involved creating and modifying UI components, including the network topology graph, switch and host lists, and controller status display. They updated the UI to align with REST API changes, enhanced the visual presentation, and improved the user experience.
openflowsdn
thewmf/kvm-docker-comparison
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Experiments for the ISPASS 2015 poster "An Updated Performance Comparison of Virtual Machines and Linux Containers"
Contributions:43 commits in 4 months
linux-containersvirtual-machine
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