Wesley Beary
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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Wesley Beary is a pragmatic software engineer and org designer with 16 years of experience crafting developer experiences through API and CLI design, platform strategy, and engineering culture. Based in Iowa City, he blends hands-on backend work—contributing to well-known Ruby projects like carrierwave, fog, and rubygems.org—with organizational coaching at companies such as Heroku/Salesforce and startups where he’s been a founding engineer and CEO. Wesley’s strengths lie at the intersection of tooling, documentation, and community: he’s improved cloud storage integrations, JSON Schema tooling, and middleware validation while also leading conferences, guilds, and decision-making processes. An active speaker, advisor, and angel investor, he pairs futurist thinking and practical craftsmanship (woodworking, cooking, gymnastics) to bring unexpected human-centered insights to technical problems.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Foresight, Graduate Certificate Foresight at University of HoustonBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Grinnell CollegeProfessional Certificate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Professional Certificate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Stanford University
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Github Skills (37)
api-rest10
json-schema10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
package-development10
testing10
rspec10
rack-middleware10
ruby10
file-storage10
api10
aws10
amazon-s310
minitest10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
interagent/prmd
Dec 2013 - Nov 2020
JSON Schema tools and doc generation for HTTP APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 342 commits, 57 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Wesley's contributions focused on the development of tools for JSON Schema documentation and generation for HTTP APIs. They set up the initial Ruby gem structure, including versioning. Significant changes involved creating and modifying Ruby files related to schema processing, including expanding references, extracting attributes, and generating documentation using Erubis templates. This included code for combining, verifying, and initializing JSON schema files.
json-schema
fog/fog
Apr 2010 - Jan 2023
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 61 reviews, 2666 commits in 12 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Wesley's commits primarily focus on implementing and maintaining core functionalities within the Fog Ruby cloud services library, specifically for the Linode and GoGrid providers. They worked on ensuring consistency between different providers and services by creating and modifying files related to compute requests. Additionally, their work involved updates to the HTTP methods in the Rackspace storage component.
cloud-servicesruby
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