Wesley Barrett

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Director 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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  • Working sessions on CLI design
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Skills
CLI designcompilersPostgreSQLLSP

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Aug 2022 - Present
    Mill 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.
  2. Software Engineer
    Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
    Wayfair · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Shipped 15 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2017 - Dec 2020
    KPMG · 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.
  4. Staff Software Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Dec 2017
    Everline Group · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Moved 75% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Feb 2012 - Oct 2015
    American 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
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer tools.

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Education

  1. Stanford GSB
    MBA, Business Administration
    2010 - 2012
  2. Carnegie Mellon University
    BS, Electronics and Communication
    2005 - 2009

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