Wesley Smith
Software at Fragile
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarWesley Smith is a full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience based in San Francisco, currently building software at Fragile. He brings deep Laravel and Vue expertise—often pairing Laravel-Backpack admin tooling with modern front-end stacks—to deliver practical, maintainable web applications. His background spans startups and high-performance firms, including roles at Jump Trading, Bloomberg, PayPal, and several founder/lead engineering positions, giving him both product intuition and infrastructure chops. He’s comfortable across the stack from infrastructure engineering to shipping customer-facing features, and has repeatedly stepped into leadership roles such as Director and Project Lead. Wesley’s career shows a pattern of scaling early-stage projects into reliable platforms, and he blends hands-on coding with mentorship and operational ownership. Outside obvious tech stacks, he has experience in trading infrastructure and systems administration, which informs a pragmatic approach to reliability and performance.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
cms10
php10
configurations10
backend10
laravel10
admin10
configuration-file10
laravel-mix10
application-framework9
web-framework9
git8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DelightedD0D/CRUD
Apr 2017 - May 2019
Build a custom admin interface for your Eloquent models, using Laravel 5.2, 5.3 or 5.4
Contributions:6 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
adminphpadmin-interfacelaravel-admincrud
DelightedD0D/Base
May 2017 - Mar 2019
Laravel Backpack's base package, which offers admin authentication and a blank admin panel using AdminLTE
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
admin-paneladminadminlteblankauthentication
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