Wesley Baugh
Software Engineer at Yelp
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolWesley Baugh is a backend software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building ad bid optimization systems at Yelp from Raleigh, NC. He brings a strong academic foundation—an MS in Computer Science with a 4.0 GPA—paired with practical expertise in distributed and parallel computing, machine learning, and NLP. Comfortable in Python and Haskell, he focuses on scalable, data-driven systems and productionizing models that influence real-time decisioning. His background in photography informs a detail-oriented, design-conscious approach to engineering and system observability. Colleagues describe him as a steady problem-solver who combines research rigor with hands-on delivery in high-throughput environments.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of North Texas
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Github Skills (84)
python10
linter10
refactoring10
git10
database-dump10
twitter9
nlp9
machine-learning9
algorithm9
natural-language-processing9
streaming-api8
configuration-language8
openapi8
command-line-interface8
servant8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bwbaugh/haskell-pre-commit-hooks
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Haskell related hooks for use with the http://pre-commit.com/ framework.
Contributions:7 commits, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
haskell
bwbaugh/codingame
Sep 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:206 commits, 102 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 5 months
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