Wes has been an active member of the QCon and InfoQ communities since 2015. Professionally, he is a Technical Principal at Equal Experts, where he specializes in app modernization and platform engineering. Wes embraces the notion of the T-shaped engineer, blending broad expertise across a wide range of software domains with deep technical knowledge in the cloud-native ecosystem. He believes in the transformative power of speaking, teaching, and continuous learning.

Wes has over 20 years of experience in software engineering. During that time, he has chaired more than 15 QCon software conferences in San Francisco, London, and New York; created the well-respected InfoQ Podcast; and spent over 10 years teaching 400-level courses on software architecture and programming at the University of Louisville. These experiences have provided him with broad knowledge across a wide range of areas in software while fostering technical depth in software architecture, cloud-native engineering, and platform thinking.

Before joining Equal Experts, Wes held technical leadership roles at Thoughtworks, where he focused on cloud and modernization; at VMware, as a Tanzu Platform Architect specializing in Spring, Kubernetes, and the developer path to production; and at an edge-related startup, where he served as VP of Technology, driving innovation at the edge.