Wesley Hartford
Backend Technical Lead at Wordly
Canada
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Top SchoolWesley Hartford is a backend technical lead with two decades of software experience and 14 years in professional roles, now based in Canada and currently leading backend efforts at Wordly. He specializes in building reliable, secure, and maintainable cloud-native systems—rewriting monolithic products into Kubernetes microservices, designing time-series stores, real-time pipelines, and distributed processing engines. Wesley blends hands-on engineering (Java, Kubernetes, ELK, DevOps) with technical mentorship, having organized hackathons, lightning talks, and coached teams to raise R&D capabilities. He’s an active contributor to production-grade open-source tooling—improving Kubernetes plugins and certificate handling in Netflix’s Lemur—and consistently focuses on pragmatic refinements that simplify deployment and operations.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Carihi
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Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
tls1210
python10
tls1310
mtls10
kubernetes-pods10
libtls10
security9
aws9
api8
apim8
api-design8
tomcat6
maven6
elk6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/lemur
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Repository for the Lemur Certificate Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Wesley focused on enhancing the Kubernetes destination plugin, addressing issues with server certificates, base64 encoding, and UI integration. They improved the plugin to load details from local files and introduced secret format options (Full, TLS, Certificate). Furthermore, they fixed validation and input handling on the destination configuration page, improving functionality across AWS and S3 plugins. These changes included refactoring, validation improvements, and enhancing the plugin's configuration options.
pythonsslssl-certificatessecuritytls
ZEPowerGroup/caman
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
A self-signing certificate authority manager
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year
certificate-authoritysigningsecuritytlscertificate
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