Summary
Wesley Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 13 years of experience designing and operating scalable cloud-native systems. He has led complex migrations from monoliths to microservices, built GraphQL API gateways, event-driven pipelines, and CI/CD automation for RushJS monorepos, and implemented Terraform modules across a broad AWS surface. At Sidekicker he combined backend performance tuning, generative AI experiments, and SRE practices; he now contributes at Leonardo.Ai on cutting-edge AI infrastructure. Wesley’s background spans e-commerce payment platforms, search and observability (Elasticsearch, CloudWatch), and real-time data replication and CDC. He pairs hands-on engineering with a pragmatic focus on operational resilience and developer experience. Fluent across PHP, Node/NestJS, Laravel, and cloud tooling, he often surfaces practical optimisations that avoid premature complexity.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Web-based Developer, 4.0, Master of Computer Science, Web-based Developer, 4.0 at RMIT
Bachelor, System Engineering, Bachelor, System Engineering at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology