Wes Galbraith
Senior Software Engineer at Archera
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolWes Galbraith is a Senior Software Engineer in Denver with nine years of experience building backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines across startups and enterprise teams. He’s driven migrations and refactors—moving services to OLAP-friendly Druid, consolidating authorization into a single microservice, and modernizing search and ingestion tooling—while shipping reliable Flask/FastAPI services and Kubernetes-friendly dev environments. His background in applied mathematics informs a methodical approach to algorithmic correctness and testing, evidenced by QA contributions to the widely used SymPy project that improved polynomial, pickling, and matrix-definiteness tests. Comfortable across cloud deployments, data warehouses, and CI-driven automation, he blends research-grade numerical rigor with pragmatic production engineering.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Applied Mathematics, Master’s Degree Applied Mathematics at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Mathematics at Gettysburg College
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Github Skills (7)
mathematics10
math10
python10
test-automation10
testing10
matrix9
mat9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sympy/sympy
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:23 commits, 5 PRs, 29 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Wes focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the SymPy library. Their contributions involved adding new test cases to verify the correctness of polynomial operations, including copy and pickling functionalities. They also addressed linting errors to ensure code quality and added tests related to matrix definiteness. Additionally, the user implemented tests to validate the behavior of algorithms within the repository.
mathpythonsciencecomputer-algebra-systemalgebra
codefordenver/partner-finder
May 2021 - Jan 2022
Using an open dataset with registered colorado business to build a tool that manages outreach to potential CFD partners.
Contributions:30 reviews, 314 commits, 116 PRs in 7 months
reactpythoncivic-techcfdflask
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