Summary
Wes Gabbard is a Senior Frontend Engineer and team lead based in Austin with over a decade of experience building scalable, user-focused web applications across nonprofits, B2B payments, and Salesforce integrations. He blends deep frontend expertise in TypeScript, React, Next.js and modern CSS with backend skills in Node.js, PostgreSQL and Snowflake, plus production-grade CI/CD, observability and testing practices. At startups and enterprise teams he has owned front-end architecture, authored component libraries and established robust E2E and unit testing pipelines that measurably improved reliability. He also designs ETL and serverless integrations (AWS Lambda) for complex data flows, enabling consistent cross-service business logic via shared types. Known for clean, maintainable code and a product-minded approach, he brings both hands-on execution and people leadership to ship polished, future-proof experiences.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.) Asian Studies, Master of Arts (M.A.) Asian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History at Indiana University Bloomington
Chinese