Summary
Wes Maldonado is a Staff Engineer with 17 years of software experience who designs and ships full-stack, cloud-native systems at scale, now building AI-powered products at Artium AI. He blends front-end expertise in React and TypeScript with back-end work across Express/FeatherJS, Java/Spring, Go and Ruby on Rails, and has productionized services on Kubernetes across AWS and multi-cloud environments. Wes has deep DevOps/DevSecOps experience creating CI/CD pipelines for both commercial and federal contexts and has led platform and POS modernization efforts that required zero-downtime migrations. He’s comfortable moving between startups and large enterprises—having scaled consumer-facing systems to tens of millions of users—and often pairs hands-on coding with technical leadership and product-focused delivery. An early adopter of automation, he helped reduce internal provisioning times from weeks to minutes at Nordstrom, a practical detail that highlights his focus on developer experience as much as system reliability.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of Washington