Wes Rice
Staff Software Engineer at Indeed
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolWes Rice is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience modernizing and maintaining front-end systems, currently shaping product UX and engineering at Indeed from Winston-Salem, NC. He has led distributed teams and driven full lifecycle delivery—from conception and architecture to deployment—at companies ranging from boutique studios to enterprise services. Wes combines a UX-first mindset with practical security and performance trade-offs, having shepherded legacy-to-modern front-end transitions at MaxMind and guided technical strategy as a lead developer. He’s comfortable across the full stack and infrastructure concerns thanks to early work as an independent contractor handling hosting, DNS, and database administration. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who still enjoys hands-on coding and improving developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Communications, 3.71 GPA in major, 3.28 overall, BA, Communications, 3.71 GPA in major, 3.28 overall at Gardner-Webb University
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Github Skills (200)
reader10
php-api10
markdown10
control-panel10
api10
site-generator10
database10
js-api10
java10
static-site10
nodejs10
twig10
geoip10
emotion10
craftcms10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
maxmind/dev-site
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
Static site generator for https://dev.maxmind.com.
Contributions:107 reviews, 540 commits, 146 PRs in 1 year 9 months
static-sitessgdevsite-generatormaxmind
wesrice/jest-style-transformers
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:22 releases, 8 PRs, 81 pushes in 10 months
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