Wesley Wong
Front End Software Engineer at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWesley Wong is a front-end software engineer with 15 years of experience building performant, user-focused web applications and developer samples at scale. He blends deep Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript expertise with a strong backend sensibility—contributing to Google Cloud Platform Java and Ruby samples that emphasize API authentication, versioning and deployability. His career spans major cloud and e-commerce players (Google, Amazon) and indie product work where he led development of advanced HTML5 WYSIWYG editors and complex data-reporting features. Comfortable across SQL and NoSQL stores, Linux tooling, and deployment stacks (nginx, Heroku, Chef), he often drives cross-functional fixes from frontend UX to backend performance. Wesley’s pragmatic curiosity shows in continuous refactors, test improvements, and migration work that keep long-lived systems healthy. Based in Kirkland, WA, he pairs hands-on craftsmanship with a track record of shipping polished developer-facing and customer-facing software.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (27)
apidoc10
sample-size10
java10
ruby10
sample-rate10
javas10
api10
google-cloud10
sample-data10
endpoints10
endpoint10
appengine10
api-design9
restful-api9
authentication9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/ruby-docs-samples
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Ruby samples for Google Cloud Platform products.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Wesley primarily focused on refining the Endpoints sample application within the Google Cloud Platform repository. Their contributions include fixing bugs in the echo and google id token clients, updating gem versions, and adjusting the README. Additionally, the user refactored the sample by relocating the Endpoints Ruby Echo sample, introduced new files and streamlined deployment configurations. The user also implemented and fixed tests for the application.
railsgooglegoogle-cloud-platformrubycloud-platform
GoogleCloudPlatform/java-docs-samples
Aug 2016 - May 2017
Java and Kotlin Code samples used on cloud.google.com
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 20 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Wesley primarily contributed to the development of Java-based backend code samples within the Google Cloud Platform context. Their work includes implementing and updating Endpoints Frameworks v2 samples, incorporating service management and authentication features. They also addressed code quality issues, fixed checkstyle errors, and integrated a sample with multiple versions, showcasing their proficiency in API development, authentication, and versioning.
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