Wesley Willard
Principal Engineer at Liquibase
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolWesley Willard is a Principal Engineer in Austin with a 35+ year software career and over a decade focused in senior engineering roles, currently shaping database change-management products at Liquibase. He blends deep backend expertise in Java/Groovy with hands-on UI work in Eclipse RCP/SWT and practical scripting integrations across Python, Ruby, and Groovy to deliver cross-platform tooling and automation. Wesley has repeatedly been an early employee at successful startups, designing pluggable engines, integration test frameworks, and language bridges that enable customer extensibility and policy automation. He pairs strong legacy-system knowledge (C/C++, JNI, FORTRAN, UNIX/Linux) with modern toolchains and practices—Agile, CI, Cucumber acceptance tests, and container-agnostic platform support. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often owns end-to-end solutions from protocol and IPC design to UI/UX and acceptance testing, helping products scale from prototype to multi-fold sales growth.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (36)
continuous-deployment10
database-migrations10
maintenance10
postgresql10
continuous-testing10
continuous-integration10
mysql10
mariadb10
database-administration10
db210
continuous-delivery10
liquibase10
java10
oracle10
sql10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liquibase/liquibase
Aug 2014 - Jan 2023
Main Liquibase Source
Contributions:245 reviews, 1159 commits, 496 PRs in 8 years 6 months
sqlserverdatabase-migrationscontinuous-integrationcontinuous-deploymentdatabase
liquibase/liquibase-parent-pom
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Parent pom for all the extensions to consume
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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