Wesley Reisz
Technical Principal at Thoughtworks
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolWesley Reisz is a hands-on technical principal and polyglot architect with 13+ years of experience modernizing applications and building cloud-native, edge, and AI-assisted solutions. He blends deep engineering practice with conference-level product leadership—having created The InfoQ Podcast and chaired QCon for nine years across London, San Francisco, and New York—and is launching QCon.AI in New York. Wesley has led platform and architecture teams at Thoughtworks, VMware Tanzu, and startups, and previously drove large enterprise initiatives for the U.S. Army and HP. He favors pragmatic, outcome-driven approaches: defining the smallest meaningful slice to validate hypotheses, measure impact, and iterate. Based in Louisville, KY, he pairs academic teaching experience with senior advisory roles, uniquely combining conference curation, developer evangelism, and hands-on systems delivery.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science; Associate of Science, Computer Information Systems; Liberal Arts, Bachelor of Science; Associate of Science, Computer Information Systems; Liberal Arts at Excelsior College (Formally University of the State of New York)MBA, eBusiness, MBA, eBusiness at University of Louisville
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Github Skills (38)
vdi10
zombie9
cloud-init9
edge-computing9
landscape9
decks8
virtualbox8
nyc8
hyper-v8
libvirt7
step-functions7
virtual-machine7
ubuntu7
merge7
chat-application6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wesreisz/wesreisz.github.io
Jan 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:19 pushes in 7 years 4 months
wesreisz/azure-voting-app-redis
Aug 2020 - Sep 2024
Azure voting app used in docs.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 1 month
voting-appvotingazure
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