Wesley Shillingford
Company Owner at Project X
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWesley Shillingford is a pragmatic software engineer with over 10 years of experience building high-performance C++ systems across cryptocurrency nodes, CAD/CAM, embedded testing, and cross-platform tooling. With an MEng in Chemical Engineering (1st) from the University of Bath, he pivoted into software and has strong expertise in modern C++, Boost ASIO/Beast, multithreading, template meta-programming, and databases like LMDB/RocksDB. He contributed to the core Nano digital-currency node—improving performance, stabilizing vote handling, and modernizing code—which shows both low-level systems skill and attention to real-world robustness. His background includes maintaining legacy codebases (MFC/COM, OpenGL/GLSL) and developing safety-critical testing tools, demonstrating comfort with both performance tuning and strict quality constraints. Currently running his own ventures and consulting through Shillingford Software Services and Project X, he blends hands-on engineering with product-minded ownership. Wesley’s uncommon trajectory from chemical engineering to high-performance distributed systems gives him a disciplined, analytical approach to complex software problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Chemical Engineering, 1st, Master's degree, Chemical Engineering, 1st at University of Bath
Github Skills (11)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
optmization10
optimisation10
performance-optimization10
optimization10
blockchain9
refactor9
concurrency9
refactoring9
performance-tuning9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nanocurrency/nano-node
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
Nano is digital currency. Its ticker is: XNO and its currency symbol is: Ӿ
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:177 reviews, 410 commits, 665 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Wesley primarily focused on improving the Nano digital currency node software by addressing code-related issues. Their contributions involved refactoring, removing virtual function specifiers, function template specializations, and replacing bind with lambda expressions, leading to cleaner code. Furthermore, the user improved the performance of requesting frontier data and fixed announced vote crashing issues.
blockchainnanocryptocurrencydigital-moneynanocurrency
wezrule/UE4NanoPlugin
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Plugin for integrating the feeless and instant Nano cryptocurrency into Unreal Engine 4
Contributions:3 releases, 56 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 1 month
unreal-enginenano-cryptocurrencyunrealnanocryptocurrency
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