Wesley Bakewell
Software Engineer at Self-employed
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolWesley Bakewell is a software engineer and former lead at The Trade Desk with a decade of experience building developer tooling and CI/CD infrastructure that measurably improves productivity. He has led teams to cut test and review cycles from days to hours, drove org-wide adoption of code coverage and static analysis, and migrated heavy E2E suites into faster unit/integration tests to shave hours off pipelines. Comfortable both managing people and shipping low-level fixes, he’s improved on-call processes, reduced alert noise, and delivered revenue-critical features under tight timelines. Now self-employed in the Los Angeles area, he’s focused on novel tooling for developer alignment in the era of AI-assisted coding, and brings practical open-source contributions to .NET integrations like a Slack API implementation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science at University of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (18)
asynchronous10
slack-api10
apidoc10
async10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
api10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
json-serialization9
try-catch6
clipboard6
visual-studio6
css6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Inumedia/SlackAPI
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
.NET Implementation of the Slack team communication platform API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Wesley contributed to the implementation of the Slack API, adding functionality for conversations and application home tabs within the .NET implementation. They introduced methods for joining conversations, opening, and renaming channels, as well as publishing home tabs, enhancing the API's capabilities. Furthermore, they corrected async implementations, ensuring non-blocking operations, and corrected parameters for a more robust API. They also modified the code for publishing app home tabs by integrating view types and incorporating block elements.
apidotnetapi-platformslack-teamcommunication
bakester14/bakester14
Dec 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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