Wesley Cope
Principal Software Engineer at Lyntris
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWesley Cope is a Principal Software Engineer with over 25 years of experience building production software for Fortune 50 companies and early-stage startups, currently based in Columbia, SC. He blends deep back-end and full-stack expertise—evidenced by contributions to Appwrite (adding OAuth2 providers like Stripe and Etsy) and improvements to multi-language SDK generation—with a founder’s mindset from launching LayerKeep. Wesley favors pragmatic engineering and open source collaboration, and will invent tools when the right ones don’t exist, a trait he wryly calls "Application Development Disorder." He has led architecture and platform efforts across finance, consumer, and ML/3D-printing domains, moving seamlessly between hands-on coding and technical leadership. His background in computer engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy underpins a disciplined, systems-oriented approach to complex problems. Colleagues describe him as a tinkerer who scales ideas into reliable, developer-friendly systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at United States Air Force Academy
objective-c, swift, rust, elixir, javascript, python, ruby, typescript
Github Skills (22)
stripe10
apidoc10
flutter-apps10
authentication10
user-authentication10
php10
api10
flutter-game10
dart10
oauth10
cli10
flutter10
backend-as-a-service9
html-template9
python-templates9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
appwrite/appwrite
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Appwrite® - complete cloud infrastructure for your web, mobile and AI apps. Including Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, Hosting, Realtime and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 55 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Wesley primarily focused on implementing OAuth 2.0 authentication for the Stripe and Etsy providers within the Appwrite project. This involved creating specific classes for each provider to handle the authentication flow, including obtaining access tokens, retrieving user information, and verifying email addresses. Furthermore, the user made related changes to the configuration files to enable the newly created providers.
aiappwriteauthcloud-infrastructuredatabase
appwrite/sdk-generator
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Generating SDKs for multiple programming languages and platforms ⚙️
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 18 commits, 5 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Wesley primarily contributed to the SDK generator, enhancing its functionality for various programming languages and platforms. They made changes to the Dart and Flutter templates, removing regex and merging branches. Furthermore, they added features and made improvements to the CLI installer templates, for example, adding brew formula and ps1 for Windows. They also updated the README file with installation instructions.
programming-languagephpsdk-generatorpythonruby
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