Wesley Vance
Founder at ExploreHere
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolWesley Vance is a founder and full‑stack React, React Native, and Node developer with 11 years of experience building product-focused web and mobile applications from idea to market. Based in Santa Fe, he blends startup rigor and lean methodology with hands-on engineering, having launched ExploreHere to surface bite-sized historical stories and run a consulting studio that helps validate and build customer-loved products. His background spans senior engineering and contractor management roles at GenUI and long-term entrepreneurial work through Apollo Studio, demonstrating comfort shifting between individual contributor and founder responsibilities. Early experience integrating enterprise databases and automating risk assessments at Genworth complements his product instincts with systems and automation know-how. Wesley is particularly interested in small business and entrepreneurship, bringing a pragmatic focus on product‑market fit rather than just shipping features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Texas A&M University
python, css/scss, html, javascript, ruby, English
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Github Skills (13)
trend9
file-upload7
drag-and-drop6
devise6
foursquare6
omniauth6
ruby-on-rails6
react6
drag5
zone5
javascript4
fitbit2
oauth1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wvance/jetapp
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:156 pushes, 19 branches in 4 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrails-appruby
wvance/PostsDeck
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1 release, 226 pushes, 22 branches in 10 months
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