Wes Nolte
Managing Director at FutureBricks
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWes Nolte is an award-winning technology executive and entrepreneur with 15 years’ experience building and scaling SaaS and cloud-first businesses, including founding and exiting Europe’s largest Salesforce consultancy in under five years. He combines hands-on engineering roots—dating back to scientific software for a national telescope and front-end open-source work on projects like the jOrgChart plugin—with board-level strategy, having led innovation practices through Tquila into Accenture. As Managing Director at Indaba Invest he runs an investment portfolio delivering over +35% p.a. since 2015, and he advises early-stage ventures through FutureBricks. A seasoned CTO and product leader, he has repeatedly translated complex enterprise requirements into commercially successful technical platforms across startups and global organisations. Known for blending technical depth with commercial outcomes, he also writes publicly on markets and crypto, demonstrating a curiosity that spans technology, finance and product.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Glenwood High SchoolBachelor of Science, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Github Skills (16)
html10
drag-and-drop10
javascript10
jquery10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
css8
e-mail6
crm6
twitter6
visualforce6
soap6
ruby-on-rails6
salesforce6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wesnolte/jOrgChart
Nov 2011 - Mar 2015
A jQuery plugin to draw tree-like structures such as OrgCharts.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 7 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Wes primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the `jorgchart` plugin. They focused on tidying up and enhancing the example markup, ensuring links worked correctly, and updated the project's blog link. The user also added drag-and-drop reordering functionality and updated the underlying HTML list panel to stay current with node rearrangements. They fixed a bug related to drag-and-drop and HTML content and made code changes to fix issues in recent versions of Firefox.
jquerydrawjavascriptjquery-plugintree-like
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