Wesley Beary
(
geemus
)
geemus@gmail.com
Objective
To utilize, contribute and create; inspired by the languages, tools and frameworks I have come to love.
Skills
Contributer:
dm-core
,
feed-normalizer
,
merb-core
,
merb-exceptions
,
Rails Core
Maintainer:
googleajax
,
excon
,
fog
,
formatodor
,
gestalt
,
shindo
Experience with cloud compute and storage apis and integration across multiple providers.
Opinionated about the Cloud, Community, Copyright, Usability and Web Standards.
Experience developing Merb/Rails applications from scratch through deployment and support.
Strengths
Adept at quickly researching and implementing solutions to problems as they arise.
Curious, eager and able to learn new things quickly.
Strong work ethic and ability to work without direct supervision.
Deployed
July 2009-Present:
Engine Yard
, Software Engineer
Improved code quality, fixed bugs and worked to improve the user experience
Replaced existing provisioning system with
fog
June 2008-July 2009:
Plinky
, Software Engineer
Researched, designed, implemented and iterated on infrastructure.
Developed abstractions to interact with numerous external APIs.
Utilized emerging open source projects, contributing fixes and improvements.
July 2007-May 2008:
ImThere.com
, Developer
Joined ongoing project to push from angel to seed funding stages.
Expanded existing functionality and refactored existing code.
Experience
Applications Analyst II
, Principal Financial Group
(Nov 2006-June 2007)
Worked to develop, test, and deploy changes to meet diverse business needs.
Provided data and services to develop future projects.
Updated Pivotal eRelationship system to match business needs.
Created and updated reporting databases and applications for use in the field.
Software Developer
, Quiktron
(Jan 2006-Oct 2006)
Created a new position for myself based on prototypes.
Collected needs and designed Rails applications to address them.
Created and operated database queries to facilitate data collection.
Integrated legacy database to track inventory.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Grinnell College, 2005
Interests
Cloud, games, music, open source, programming, standards, technology, usability and the web.