Wes Hoover
Front-End Developer at Dimensional Fund Advisors
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolWes Hoover is a front-end developer in Austin with 11 years of experience blending art, data, and interactive web technologies to craft engaging user experiences. He brings a unique background in animation, VFX, and science visualization—work that has appeared in planetarium shows, museums, and national commercial campaigns—into modern front-end engineering. At Dimensional Fund Advisors he focuses on building polished, data-driven interfaces, and prior roles at frog, HomeAway, and as an instructor demonstrate his ability to move between design collaboration, production, and teaching. Comfortable with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript frameworks and CMS integrations, he also has hands-on experience creating bespoke UI components and migration work on marketing platforms. Wes pairs creative storytelling and cinematic sensibilities with pragmatic engineering, often translating complex datasets into intuitive visual interactions. Based in Austin, he uniquely leverages an MFA in Computer Art and a history of freelance VFX work to make interfaces both beautiful and informative.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development - WDI, Web Development - WDI at General AssemblyBFA, Photography / Computer Arts, BFA, Photography / Computer Arts at Memphis College of ArtMFA, Computer Art: Animation, MFA, Computer Art: Animation at School of Visual Arts
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Github Skills (8)
momentjs9
javascript6
react6
emmet5
atom-plugin4
textmate4
buffer3
find-and-replace2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
WesHoover/Task_App
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 28 days
WesHoover/HipRest_app
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:44 PRs, 44 pushes, 11 branches in 6 days
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