Wes Kendall
Chief Technology Officer at Ambition
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWes Kendall is a veteran engineering leader and founder with 15 years building products and teams across startups and health tech, currently Head of Engineering at Ambition and running freelance shop Opus 10. He co-founded Ambition (YC W14), served as CTO, and later helped launch Basis, blending hands-on backend development with product and growth responsibilities. His early research background and PhD work inform deep expertise in scientific data management, parallel I/O, and performance tuning from projects at national labs and Google MapReduce. A pragmatic polyglot focused on Python/Django, Postgres, and scalable backend systems, he also contributes to open-source educational projects like the MPI tutorial site. Based in Nashville, he pairs academic rigor with startup grit, often bridging complex data pipelines with practical, customer-facing solutions.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at The University of Tennessee
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
jekyll10
documentation10
website-development9
mpi8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mpitutorial/mpitutorial
Jul 2014 - Aug 2020
MPI programming lessons in C and executable code examples
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:139 commits, 30 PRs, 57 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Wes's commits primarily involve updates to the project's documentation and website structure. They added and modified files related to the site's layout, including the default template and the 404 page. Additionally, the user incorporated Google Analytics and Disqus for site management and interactivity. The user also updated the site's stylesheet and navigation, along with adding and updating the code for tutorial examples.
mpi
ambitioninc/django-app-template
Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:55 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 4 months
django-appstemplatepythondjangostandalone
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