Wesley Dean
CEO Senior Mentor at KDA Web Technologies, AWS / Google Cloud development services
City of Syracuse, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWesley Dean is a seasoned DevSecOps and infrastructure engineering leader with nine years of focused experience and a decades-long track record founding and running KDA Web Technologies. He architects cloud-first solutions across AWS and Google Cloud, migrates legacy systems to immutable infrastructure, and automates secure build/test/deploy pipelines for clients ranging from federal agencies to Fortune 50 enterprises and large universities. As a hands-on CEO and senior mentor he balances technical architecture, project management, and staff development—building internship and training programs that turn students into production-ready technologists. His federal work includes FedRAMP-aware automation and cross-team testing guilds, and he has written operational whitepapers on securely passing credentials to containerized apps. Comfortable from LAMP stacks to Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Splunk ecosystems, he brings practical security-minded engineering to complex, high-scale environments. Based in Syracuse, NY, he combines entrepreneurial leadership with a preference for solving knotty infrastructure problems while coaching the next generation of engineers.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computational Science, Computer Science Computational Science at Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science
Github Skills (72)
azure-pipelines10
gitlab-ci10
apex10
kotlin10
ci-tools10
jenkins10
markdown9
golang9
quayio9
feather-icons9
dashboard9
terraform9
security9
python9
linter9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wesley-dean/aws_ssh_authentication_helper
Nov 2021 - Feb 2026
A Bash script to allow users to authenticate over SSH with their AWS Code Commit public keys
Contributions:3 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
aws-clisshkeysbashpublic-keys
wesley-dean/mega-linter-plugin-j2lint
Apr 2025 - Apr 2026
MegaLinter plugin to run Arista Networks' j2lint
Contributions:14 reviews, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year
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