Wes Maldonado

Current

• Senior Engineer at Pathable

Past

• Agile Engineer at Pivotal Labs
• Software Development Engineer in Test at thePlatform
• Software Developer at Onvia

• LAMP Consultant at Azebu/BrokenBuild (Self-employed)
• Systems Security Intern at Qwest
• Software Developer Intern at Lockstream
• PowerPC Development Intern at IBM, Austin, TX

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Education

• University of Washington

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog

Wes Maldonado’s Summary

I'm a data junkie and agile evangelist (Scrum/Lean/XP) . I've managed to somehow get into the habit of turning piles of unstructured data into piles of information. I've done this with both a few megabytes a few terabytes.

In my spare time I teach skiing and run a couple Seattle software based user groups.

Wes Maldonado’s Specialties:

Certified ScrumMaster
MySQL Experts Guild Member
Blogs/Syndication (Atom/RSS)
Social Networking Platforms
Professional Ski Instructors of America Certified Instructor

Wes Maldonado’s Experience

• Senior Engineer

  Pathable

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2008 — Present (11 months)

  Changing the way you experience conferences via http://www.pathable.com

• Agile Engineer

  Pivotal Labs

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  May 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  Discipline. Speed. Quality.
  Nobody does software development like us.
  
  Got a vision? Our startup start-up crew works with you, in your space or ours, bootstrapping on a rapid timetable focused on iteration and quality.
  
  We write applications in Ruby, Ruby on Rails and Javascript... We also will go back to Java or C# upon request, if you ask nicely.

• Software Development Engineer in Test

  thePlatform

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  Developed test suites using JUnit/NUnit in Java and C# to automate functional/acceptance tests against web applications and web services.

• Software Developer

  Onvia

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; ONVI; Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 8 months)

  Wrote targeted web crawlers using WebQL from QL2.com.
  Wrote ASP/C# applications to manage data aggregation against 70K data sources.

• LAMP Consultant

  Azebu/BrokenBuild (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  January 2002 — June 2004 (2 years 6 months)

  Developed and optimized Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP applications for various companies in the United States.
  
  Specialized in optimizing MySQL performance in web application scenarios.

• Systems Security Intern

  Qwest

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; q; Telecommunications industry)

  June 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 1 month)

  Developed MySQL and Perl based Squid Proxy Log Search engine for security audits.
  Performed venerability/security scans using open source tools against corporate computing assets.

• Software Developer Intern

  Lockstream

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1999 — January 2000 (8 months)

  Developed prototype DRM application using SQL Server and ASP for DRM SDK.
  Developed fully compliant XMLRPC client using pure VbScript.
  Automated build processes to enable single click developer sandbox creation.

• PowerPC Development Intern

  IBM, Austin, TX

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ibm; Computer Hardware industry)

  June 1998 — September 1998 (4 months)

  Assisted project manager in developing risk management and analysis reports.

Wes Maldonado’s Education

• University of Washington

  1998 — 2003

  Sat in on a more than a few classes in Linguistics and just a couple in Informatics. I should really finish my degree sometime soon.

  Activities and Societies:

  Husky Winter Sports, Swing Kids

Additional Information

Wes Maldonado’s Websites:

• My Blog

Wes Maldonado’s Interests:

Agile Development: Scrum, Lean, XP. Scalability

Wes Maldonado’s Groups:

MySQL Experts Guild, Professional Ski Instructors of America, Seattle Software Design Patterns Study Group, Seattle PHP Meetup

•    APLN
•    Agile Alliance
•    Linked:Seattle
•    MySQL Professionals

Wes Maldonado’s Honors:

MySQL Experts Guild Member, Eagle Scout

Wes Maldonado’s Contact Settings

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