Wesley Carlson
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWesley Carlson is a software engineer with seven years of professional experience at Microsoft, focused on backend infrastructure for real-time, distributed web applications. He contributed significant refactors, bug fixes, and new features to the high-profile microsoft/FluidFramework project, improving data store, session management, snapshot handling, and blob loading for collaborative systems. A St. Cloud State University CS graduate with a math minor and a track record as a tutoring and club leader, he combines strong theoretical interests in AI, cryptography, and algorithms with practical engineering discipline. Wesley’s academic rigor (3.64 GPA) and hands-on experience show he’s a quick learner who thrives on complex stateful systems and developer-facing infrastructure.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at St. Cloud State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Normandale Community College
English, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
fluid-framework10
back-end-development10
api-design9
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
api9
apim9
datastructures-algorithms8
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
microsoft/FluidFramework
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:305 reviews, 438 commits, 399 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Wesley's commits primarily involved refactoring, bug fixes, and implementing new features related to data store and session management, as well as the core services. The user introduced concepts like snapshot and a new attachment type, implementing the functionality to load and persist detached data. Furthermore, the user made changes to ensure correct state handling when a container rehydrates, and to support the loading and processing of blobs. The work demonstrates a focus on the infrastructure and core service layer of the distributed collaborative web application.
datastructurerealtimereal-timeweb-applicationsfluid-framework
wes-carlson/FluidFramework
Sep 2020 - Sep 2023
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web components and applications
Contributions:373 pushes, 328 branches, 1 tag in 3 years
distributedreactweb-componentscollaborativereal-time
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