Wesley Barrett
SDirector of Engineering at Mill Data · Developer tools
- Mill Data
- Miami, FL · ET (UTC-5)
- 15+ years experience
- Stanford GSB
- English, Arabic
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Overview
17 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Mill Data, where I lead the developer experience team. Led the migration of 37 services to compilers. Before that: Wayfair and KPMG. Most at home with PostgreSQL and compilers.
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- Second opinions on compilers decisions
- Speaking or podcast invitations
- Working sessions on CLI design
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Skills
CLI designcompilersPostgreSQLLSP
Experience
- Director of EngineeringAug 2022 - PresentMill Data · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
- Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
- Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 41% in two quarters.
- Software EngineerDec 2020 - Aug 2022Wayfair · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
- Shipped 15 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
- Engineering ManagerDec 2017 - Dec 2020KPMG · 3 yr · Full-time · Miami, FL
- Grew the developer experience team from 3 to 14 engineers.
- Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 37% in two quarters.
- Staff Software EngineerOct 2015 - Dec 2017Everline Group · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
- Moved 75% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Senior Software EngineerFeb 2012 - Oct 2015American Express · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
- Moved 80% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Projects
Conference talk: lessons from developer experience
2023What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer tools.
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Education
- Stanford GSBMBA, Business Administration2010 - 2012
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityBS, Electronics and Communication2005 - 2009
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