Wes McNamee
Software Weaver at CoreWeave
Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWes McNamee is a seasoned infrastructure automation engineer with 12 years of experience designing scalable, cost-efficient Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms. Currently a Software Weaver at CoreWeave, he has led Kubernetes architecture, ArgoCD/CI-CD rollouts, and TDD-driven practices across startups and enterprises including Everbridge, TuneIn, and Microsoft. Wes consistently reduces costs and operational toil—one project delivered an 80% AWS cost saving and others cut deployments from days to minutes—while mentoring teams in Jsonnet, testing, and platform standards. He’s an active contributor to performance-sensitive open-source work, notably optimizing core Jsonnet functions in Go for measurable benchmarks, demonstrating a blend of low-level performance focus and high-level platform strategy. Colleagues know him for turning complex system requirements into pragmatic automation and for fostering collaborative engineering cultures.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Self-Taught
English
Github Skills (16)
benchmark10
benchmarking10
go10
performance-optimization10
autofixture10
jsonnet10
implement9
fsharp9
text-manipulation9
algorithm9
algorithms9
base64-encoding8
asp-net7
net7
unit-testing7
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
google/go-jsonnet
Dec 2019 - Jun 2020
Role in this project:
Performance Engineer
Performance EngineerContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 100 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Wes focused on improving the performance of Jsonnet's standard library functions. Their contributions involved rewriting several core functions, including `substr`, `reverse`, `base64`, and `base64Decode`, in native Go. They measured and documented significant performance gains, indicated by the benchmarks provided in their commits, for each function. Additionally, they fixed a bug related to escaping HTML in `manifestJsonEx`.
ploeh/ploeh.github.com
Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
ploeh blog 'source code'
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Wes contributed to a blog repository, primarily by adding comments to existing blog posts. These comments appear to be user discussions related to the AutoFixture library and associated concepts like freezing objects and customization strategies. The user also merged a branch from another user, incorporating a blog post about AutoFixture conventions.
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