Wiley Conte
Sales Engineer at Populist
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolWiley Conte is a pragmatic sales engineer and former senior software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems, now helping customers unlock value at Fivetran. He co-founded Populist and previously built scalable streaming platforms in Rust and TypeScript at Dreamstage, pairing product-focused development with performance-minded frontends. Comfortable across the full lifecycle—from Rails and React UI architecture to backend reliability and deployment—he brings a systems-first mindset informed by real-world ops and consulting work. Based in Denver, his technical curiosity spans civics, automatic code generation, and optimization for speed, which informs both his engineering and go-to-market conversations. With a background in applied economics, he combines quantitative thinking with practical engineering to translate complex requirements into reliable, usable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Economics, Applied Economics at University of Vermont
Github Skills (122)
compile-time10
democracy10
async-await10
schema10
code-generator10
async10
api10
rust10
voting10
compile10
plugin10
graphql10
react10
codegen9
gatsby9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
populist-vote/web
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
The Populist web app.
Contributions:141 reviews, 270 PRs, 1987 pushes in 3 years 3 months
next-jsreactnextjscivic-techengagement
populist-vote/votesmart
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:12 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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