Wes Grimes
Lead Engineer II at Jane Technologies, Inc.
North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolWes Grimes is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building cannabis tech at Jane Technologies from North Carolina. He spans full-stack development and is particularly focused on developer experience, having contributed to high-profile open-source projects like ngrx/platform and Nx to improve schematics, testing, plugin discovery, and monorepo workflows. Wes’s contributions include adding API-generating schematics, enhancing search and typing in state management, and improving affected-file checks and migration tooling for faster CI and developer productivity. He blends practical product work with thoughtful tooling improvements, making complex build and state patterns easier for teams to adopt.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Studies Liberal Arts, Studies Liberal Arts at Polk State CollegeLake Gibson High School
French, English
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Github Skills (24)
nxos10
angular10
javascript10
ngrx10
jes10
typescript10
build-system10
rxjs10
schematic10
jestjs10
typescript-types10
jtest10
monorepo10
build-tools10
typescripts10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ngrx/platform
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
Reactive State for Angular
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 16 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Wes primarily contributed to the schematics and documentation of the ngrx/platform project. They updated the schematics to generate API actions, effects, and actions. Additionally, the user enabled search functionality and made updates to the team page. Further, they added default generic type to Store and MockStore.
unidirectional-data-flowrxjsstate-managementobservablesngrx
nrwl/nx
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
Build system, optimized for monorepos, with plugins for popular frameworks and tools and advanced CI capabilities including caching and distribution.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 14 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Wes primarily focused on improving the `nx` build system, specifically related to testing and plugin functionality. They fixed bugs in the testing configuration, including disabling `collectCoverage` by default, and added a migration script. They also added features to ignore files in affected checks using the `.nxignore` file and enhanced the `nx list` command, adding community plugin support. Their work involved modifying build configurations, workspace commands, and plugin capabilities to improve the developer experience.
nx-workspacesworkspacesclijavascriptcypress
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