Weston Platter
Platform Engineer
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWeston Platter is a Platform Engineer in Denver with 14 years of experience building full-stack, production-focused systems and shipping infrastructure as code for clients at Masterpoint. He blends a pragmatic product mindset with deep hands-on skills across Python, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), honed across startups and finance firms like Janus Henderson. His background in quant and options risk engineering informs a rigorous, test-first approach—evident in open-source contributions improving test suites and documentation for notable Ruby projects like phashion and fog. Comfortable moving between coding, DevOps, and technical writing, he excels at turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, auditable platforms.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Stackoverflow
1,485reputation
892kreached
53answers
15questions
Github Skills (14)
testing10
api-documentation10
documentation10
yard10
ruby10
aws-s39
image-analysis9
mysql6
facebook6
facebook-graph-api6
rake6
rails-engines6
mongoid6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
westonplatter/phashion
Nov 2013 - Jun 2022
Ruby wrapper around pHash, the perceptual hash library for detecting duplicate multimedia files
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:55 commits, 9 PRs, 16 pushes in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Weston primarily contributed to enhancing the testing suite for the `phashion` library. Their work involved adding tests for various image types, specifically focusing on PNG fingerprints and duplicate detection. The user also addressed test-related issues by adjusting thresholds and implementing tests for new features like the Mexican hat wavelet. Additionally, they removed duplicated and outdated test references.
ruby-wrapperphashimage-analysisduplicatehash
fog/fog
Dec 2012 - May 2013
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:32 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Weston primarily focused on improving the project's documentation. Their contributions involved converting the existing documentation style to YARD format, adding descriptions for various methods, and standardizing the return formats for different API requests. They also updated the documentation by adding URLs for S3 documentation and reformatting existing documentation, ensuring consistency and clarity throughout.
cloud-servicesrubygemstest-kitchenfogruby
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